Debating the curbs on 'Baby Bells.' (government regulation the the Bell Regional Holding Companies)

Article Abstract:

The US Senate is expected to pass legislation, in the week of Jun 3, 1991, that would permit the seven Bell Regional Holding Companies (BRHC) to manufacture communications equipment. Prospects for the legislation are less positive in the House of Representatives. The 'Baby Bell' companies are prohibited from doing manufacturing under the court-supervised breakup of the AT&T national telephone system because of fears that dominance in local telephone markets might lead to unfair competition. Since the divestiture of AT&T, the BHRC also are prohibited from offering electronic information services and long-distance telephone services; these are left to AT&T and independent vendors. The debate now concerns lifting at least some restrictions on the Bell companies, which would put them into direct competition with former parent AT&T. At issue is a domestic market for communications equipment that is estimated to be worth $35 billion.

Telephone communications, exc. radio, Political activity, Telephone companies, T, Telecommunications equipment industry, Telecommunications equipment, Regional Bell Operating Companies, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Communications Equipment, Telephone Company, Bell Regional Holding Companies

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Bill to allot airwaves advanced; some frequencies would shift from U.S. to private use

Article Abstract:

The House Energy and Commerce Committee votes unanimously to open part of the radio spectrum that was previously reserved for government uses so that there will be more room for commercial communications technologies such as radio telephones, digital radio and data services for computers. The legislation neither endorses any particular technologies nor does it provide for specific frequency allocations. What the legislation does is to require the Commerce Department to identify underutilized government radio frequencies that can be reassigned. The legislation gives the Secretary of Commerce two years to identify government radio frequencies totaling 200 megahertz.

COMMUNICATION, Regulation, admin. of utilities, United States. Federal Communications Commission, Telecommunication policy, Telecommunications policy, United States. Department of Commerce, Electromagnetic radiation, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce, Telecommunications

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