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Last week's settlement was silent on whether AT&T in its truncated form will be permitted to plunge into such hot new fields as information processing and data transmission. A 1980 ruling by the FCC allowed the company to compete in those markets if it created a subsidiary. The firm is in the process of doing this, and the new entity has already been dubbed Baby Bell. The offspring would compete head-on with giants like Xerox and IBM in the fast-changing world of information technology. Meanwhile, the Senate has already passed legislation that would clearly define...
...Federal Communications Commission has until Jan. 15 to disallow last week's auction and all future proceedings. There are 17 petitions now before the FCC, objecting to the auction mostly on grounds that selling transponders to the highest bidders is "unjustly discriminatory" and unduly inflates the prices. If the commission should agree, RCA is prepared to assign the transponders on a first-come first-served basis. They also have several to spare: Satcom IV carries 24 transponders, of which eight were assigned three years ago, two are "pre-emptable" (meaning, essentially, that they serve as backups) and seven...
...jobs because I was a woman," Pauley said, adding, "My motto was 'Praise be for the FCC...
...dispute first went to the Federal Communications Commission. Relying on a "reasonable access" guarantee in a 1972 statute, the FCC ordered the networks to grant Carter's request. Chief Justice Warren Burger, writing for a six-man majority, backed up both the FCC and the statute, which he said "represents an effort by Congress to assure that an important resource - the air waves - will be used in the public interest...
...company, though, had to file long pleas with the Federal Communications Commission and wage endless court battles with AT&T before its service could be established. In landmark decisions in 1969 and 1971, the FCC allowed MCI and all other competitors to break Ma Bell's 50-year monopoly on long-distance calls. Last June a Chicago federal court ruled that AT&T had to pay MCI $1.8 billion in damages, because the telephone giant would not allow it to use AT&T lines to relay calls between 1971 and 1975. It was the biggest antitrust judgment ever...