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...Ma Bell has never kept secret its desire to monopolize U.S. telephone service. Arguing that competition fostered waste, duplication and higher phone rates, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1908 launched an ad campaign with the theme "One system, one policy, universal service...
...independent companies control the rest: 26.8 million phones in all states except Delaware and Rhode Island. Together, AT&T and the independents make up the U.S. "telephone establishment." In recent years the courts and the Federal Communications Commission have allowed newer competitors into a field that Ma Bell and friends would love to call their...
Competition would also be lessened for Ma Bell's Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary-currently the target of a massive Government divestiture suit (TIME, Dec. 2, 1974). The bill might knock out some of the 400 independent telephone-equipment suppliers that have sprung up in the past eight years since the FCC first allowed non-Bell gadgetry, from entire corporate phone systems to replicas of antique French telephones, to be plugged into AT&T lines...
...consoles made by non-Bell companies. Present regulations require approval of these devices by the FCC. That is not a major burden even to small manufacturers, but the new bill would take the FCC out of the picture and require equipment approval by utility regulators in all 50 states. Ma Bell is well prepared for these laborious procedures; the smaller companies...
...when all was said and done, the multiflex got no further than Milford, Ma., which happens to be where Restic and his six assistant coaches all reside...