AT&T Consent Decree: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, August 1 and 2, 1989 |
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Page 17 - January 10. 1983), aff'd, 740 F.2d 980 (DC Cir. 1984), cert, denied, 470 US 1005 (1985); MCI Communications Corp. v. AT&T, 708 F.2d 1081 (7th Cir.), cert, denied. 464 US 891 (1983); Data Transmission Corp. v. AT&T. No. 76-1544 (DDC); MCI Communications Corp. v. AT&T, No. 79-1182 (DDC); Southern Pacific Communications Corp. v. AT&T. No. 83-0094 & MDL 550 (ND Cal.); United States Transmission Systems v.
Page 154 - telephone" has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Page 88 - ... data transmission, address translation, protocol conversion, billing management, introductory information content, and navigational systems that enable users to access...
Page 238 - As you may know, the NARUC is a quasi-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1889. Within our membership are the governmental agencies of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands which are engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers.
Page 65 - Antitrust laws in general, and the Sherman Act in particular, are the Magna Carta of free enterprise. They are as important to the preservation of economic freedom and our free-enterprise system as the Bill of Rights is to the protection of our fundamental personal freedoms.
Page 385 - TIA's members are located throughout the United States, and collectively provide the bulk of the physical plant and associated products and services used to support and improve the US telecommunications network. In addition, TIA members are involved on an ever-increasing basis in providing telecommunications equipment and services in other developed and developing nations around the world.
Page 25 - For while the regulatory, legislative, and antitrust initiatives were pending, the industry participants had to wait, month after month, year after year, to learn what the "rules" and industry structure would be. While they waited, industry participants often could not move forward with new services and new investment, for fear of having to backtrack when the new "rules
Page 13 - United States v. AT&T. 524 F. Supp. 1336, 1372 (DDC 1981). This headstart allegedly assured that Western Electric would have the only products on the market that met the BOCs' requirements, such that the product could be purchased at inflated prices, and regulatory authorities would have no realistic alternative to passing these inflated prices through to ratepayers. See August 16, 1981, DOJ Memorandum, pp. 49-51; Competitive Impact Statement, pp. 15, 40-42. Second, the Department claimed that the...
Page 9 - BOC both to control local exchange networks on a widespread basis and to participate in competitive businesses that depend on "access" to these local exchanges or information about them. These points are demonstrated by a brief review of (1) the antitrust litigation against the Bell System, (2) the fact that state and federal public utility regulation could not prevent these controversies, (3) the enormous costs that this antitrust problem imposed on the nation, and (4) the explicit antitrust findings...
Page 8 - The Modification of Final Judgment (or "Decree") granted the United States the structural anti-trust relief that the Justice' Department had sought in over three decades of antitrust litigation with the formerly integrated Bell System. The January 1, 1984, divestiture split the Bell System between its monopoly local exchange businesses (assigned to the BOCs) and its competitive long distance and manufacturing businesses -(assigned to AT&T). The Decree originally contained four line of business injunctions...