Word: fcc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FCC cuts long-distance telephone rates by $1.8 billion
...long-distance-rate cut, the first in 14 years and the biggest ever, marked the beginning of the FCC's major restructuring of telephone charges in the wake of the divestiture. The overall goal is to transfer as much of the phone system's costs as possible to the people who use the specific services. Said FCC Chairman Mark Fowler of the rulings: "We are beginning to eliminate the crazy-quilt pricing that prevailed in a predivestiture world. My hope is that in the next two to three years we will see long-distance rates reduced...
...FCC's Fowler vs. TV news
Lower prices, though, may be just ahead. To encourage competition, the FCC has also authorized non-Bell companies to provide cellular transmission in 30 large market areas, and about 1,000 firms, including Metromedia and GTE, are competing for licenses in smaller cities. All are expected to fight for customers by lowering prices...
...rush has created a logjam at the FCC and griping among the non-Bell newcomers, who see the old Bell companies as getting a head start in mobile service. Says Albert Grimes, vice president of American TeleServices, a company in the Baltimore-Washington market: "The industry was moving at 100 m.p.h. and ran into an agency that was moving...