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...FCC's Fowler...
Leave it to Ronald Reagan to appoint Mark Fowler chairman of the FCC [Nov. 21]. With his goal of stripping away regulations and safeguards, Fowler typifies the Reagan Administration's mercenary sensibilities...
...however, was always an uncomfortable arrangement. The company wanted to get into related fields like computers when they began developing; other firms were eager to enter the phone business; and the Government was worried by the size and power of the telephone giant. In a far-reaching decision, the FCC in 1968 allowed a Texas firm to sell a device called a Carterfone, which connected mobile radios to AT&T lines. It was the first time any non-Bell product had ever won the right to be wired into the Bell System and was the first electronic breach...
...other bars to competition began to fall. By the end of the 1960s certain forms of long-distance telecommunications other than Bell's were approved by the FCC. Still, Bell supplied 79.5% of U.S. telephone service. That was too much, said antitrust enthusiasts. On Nov. 20, 1974, the Justice Department filed a suit to break off Western Electric, the telephone company's manufacturing division, from the rest...
Wirth's bill passed the House last week, but Senate action is not expected until next year. In any case, the FCC last month delayed the fees until April 3 to give itself more time to study AT&T's arguments in favor of the surcharge...