Long-distance Competition: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, on State of Competition in the Long-distance Telephone Markets, September 5 and 11, 1985 |
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Page 197 - Subject to Appendix B, each BOC shall provide to all interexchange carriers and information service providers exchange access, information access, and exchange services for such access on an unbundled, tariffed basis, that is equal in type, quality, and price to that provided to AT&T and its affiliates.
Page 251 - The NARUC is a quasi-governmental, nonprofit organization whose members include regulatory bodies of the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Designed to serve the public interest by seeking to improve the quality and effectiveness of government regulation of carriers and utilities, its members play a crucial role in shaping the profile and substance of public regulation in America today.
Page 197 - ... 1984, each BOC shall begin to offer to all interexchange carriers exchange access on an unbundled, tariffed basis, that is equal in type and quality to that provided for the interexchange telecommunications services of AT&T and its affiliates. No later than September 1, 1985, such equal access shall be offered through end offices of each BOC serving at least one-third of that BOC's exchange access lines and, upon bona fide request, every end office shall offer such access by September 1, 1986.
Page 197 - Court to accept a definition of "equal access" as access whose "overall quality in a particular area is equal within a reasonable range which is applicable to all carriers...
Page 74 - In the Matter of MTS and WATS Market Structure, CC Docket No. 78-72, Phase I, p.
Page 73 - MTS and WATS Market Structure Amendment of Part 67 of the Commission's Rules and Establishment of a Joint Board CC Docket No. 78-72 CC Docket No . 80-286 COMMENTS OF CONTINENTAL TELECOM INC . TO THE COMMISSION AND TO THE FEDERAL-STATE JOINT BOARD Continental Telecom Inc. ( "Contel...
Page 72 - Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the US House of Representatives Statement of R.
Page 73 - See MTS and WATS Market Structure, CC Docket No. 78-72, Phase I, Third Report and Order, 48 Fed. Reg. 10319 (March 11, 1983), as modified under reconsideration, July 27, 1983. 2. Bell Communications Research, Inc., "The Impact of End User Charges on Bypass and Universal Telephone Service,
Page 192 - Such specialized exchange telecommunications services include, where necessary, the provision of network control signalling, answer supervision, automatic calling number identification, carrier access codes, testing and maintenance of facilities, and the provision of information necessary to bill customers. J. "Information service...
Page 170 - And I want to thank you on behalf of the committee for your presence here this morning and tell you how helpful you have been to us.