Word: fcc
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Local rates have been artificially low for years because state and federal regulators have required Ma Bell to use revenues from long-distance tolls to subsidize basic phone service. But in order to encourage sharper competition among AT&T and such new rivals as MCI and GTE Sprint, the FCC decided to do away with inflated long-distance rates. The agency ruled that when AT&T spins off its regional operating companies on New Year's Day, it will stop paying local subsidies, which now amount to about $10.7 billion. The new $2-a-month local charge is intended...
Cable operators pay a franchise fee of 3 to 5 percent of gross revenue back to cities and towns. This rate is set by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Massachusetts law stipulates that cities can only collect 50 cents per subscriber. This means that a city like Cambridge with a 50 percent penetration rate (that is 20,000 out of 40,000 households) could collect only $10,000 as opposed to a possible $300,000 based on six million gross revenue...
...common carriers, often transmit both kinds of signals. Growing familiarity with cheaper beepers is expected to enhance the demand for mobile phones. Another radio-transmitted telephone service, cordless phones, which only have a range of up to 700 ft., got a boost from the Government last week when the FCC proposed to double the number of frequencies available...
Mobile Communications is one of many common carriers that are also applying for cellular radio licenses. The FCC plans to designate two for each city. One of the two everywhere will be a telephone company. A big winner will be American Telephone & Telegraph Co., which pioneered in development of the new technology. AT&T is already serving 2,000 mobile-phone customers with a network covering some 2,100 sq. mi. in a pilot project in Chicago, where regular cellular service will begin in November. The company has been granted licenses to build systems in six other cities: Boston, Buffalo...
...anxious are the networks to exorcise these ghosts from seasons past that last week they petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to restore to them the syndication rights that the FCC had awarded to the series' producers in 1970. The networks argue that without the revenue from syndication it will be more difficult to commission adventurous, expensive programming. The producers counter that the licensing fee the networks pay for two airings of a series often does not cover production costs (more than $750,000 for an hour show, $400,000 for a half-hour). The profits from syndication do, though...