Word: fcc
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With the decision, the FCC moved the U.S. phone system a step closer to one of the goals of the Bell breakup. That was to promote competition in the long- distance field by making it as easy to use new long-distance companies as it is to use AT&T. At present, an AT&T long-distance customer need only dial 1 plus the area code and local number. But in most areas, customers of competing networks must punch in as many as 22 numbers before reaching their party. Even when a connection is made, customers complain of erratic voice...
...best-known possession Murdoch may have to give up is his Australian citizenship. FCC regulations also bar foreigners from owning more than 20% of a broadcast license. Murdoch, who has lived in New York since 1974, announced that he will apply to become an American citizen. If his application is approved quickly, Murdoch could recite the Oath of Allegiance in a matter of weeks. Though Murdoch may seek dual citizenship, Australian law forbids it; unless Murdoch finds a legal loophole, he will be an American only...
...THINK ABOUT AT&T'S DISCOUNTS." AT&T is the most expensive long distance carrier in the country. Lawrence explained that the FCC grants AT&T's competitors a 55 percent discount in local access fees to help compensate for AT&T's advantages as the former telephone monopoly. According to the March issue of Consumer Reports, the least expensive service was SBS Skyline, followed, in order of increasing rates, by Western Union, Allnet, ITT, MCI, GTE, Sprint, and AT&T, SBS Skyline, according to Sesser, was "the over-whelming choice. Not only was it the cheapest service...
...Washington, Justice Department officials foresaw no antitrust barriers, as long as both companies complied with FCC regulations regarding mergers. Some potentially problematic FCC rules might be relaxed by Reagan Administration appointees, who have already let several other large mergers go through unchallenged. Industry lawyers, for example, think that the commission might do away with a regulation that bans a network from owning cable-TV systems, a large part of Capital Cities' business. Joseph Fuchs, a Kidder Peabody vice president and one of Wall Street's top media analysts, thinks that the FCC now sees itself as "neither a sword...
...image comes from years as TV's best-known underdog. The American Broadcasting Co. was created in 1943 when the FCC forced the National Broadcasting Co. to give up one of its two radio networks (NBC kept the so- called Red Network; its Blue Network became ABC). Ten years later, ABC merged with United Paramount Theaters, whose chief executive, Leonard Goldenson, became president of the new company and its guiding spirit...