Phone pie is divided once more; F.C.C. vote extends local competition

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The Federal Communications Commission votes 3-0 to allow competitive access providers to offer long-distance telephone companies access to their local business customers in competition with the Bell Regional and GTE local telephone companies. The decision expands a Sep 1992 FCC vote that allowed competitive access providers to offer special access private phone lines to business customers, and may betoken the eventual opening up of the residential local telephone market to full-scale competition. The local telephone companies decry the decision as rash and unfair, noting that the FCC currently lacks two members including a chairman. Such leading competitive access carriers as MFS Communications and the Teleport Communications Group, on the other hand, likewise protest an interim requirement that they pay 80 percent of the estimated $264-$840 million in revenue they will derive from the new services back to the local carrier as a residual interconnection charge.

Telecommunications industry, United States. Federal Communications Commission, GTE, Competition, Bypass carriers (Telecommunication), Bypass carriers (Telecommunications), Local Access and Transport Area

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Computer and phone link is studied by Intel and MCI

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Intel Corp and MCI Communications Corp agree to develop a microcomputer communications board that will enable users to transmit voice, video and data at the same time over telephone lines. Videoconferencing and remote work-group computing applications would benefit from the new device. Intel has already reached similar agreements with such local telephone companies as Bell Atlantic and Pacific Bell, but this is its first agreement with a long-distance carrier. Senior VP Frank Gill says the move is part of a comprehensive Intel campaign to harness the combined power of microcomputers and telephones to increase user productivity. Industry analysts see the convergence of computers, communications and media spawning an explosive new market over the next decade, and think Intel is well positioned to parlay its dominance of the microprocessor market into a major role in the new industry.

Semiconductors and related devices, Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Product development, Intel Corp., INTC, Telecommunications equipment industry, Contracts, Workgroup computing, Videoconferencing, MCI Communications Corp., MCIC, Communications boards/cards, Communications boards (Computers), Marketing Strategy, Cooperative Agreements, Work Group Computing, LAN Adapter

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California phone concerns get incentives

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The California Public Utilities Commission approves regulatory changes that will mean freer competition for California's two largest local telephone companies. The commission will set rates for Pacific Bell and GTE California Inc based on incentives, or price caps, rather than on a cost-of-service basis. The plan, scheduled to begin on Jan 1, 1990, is expected to promote new services and lower phone rates. California's action is likely to be influential elsewhere: California is the first state to adopt a framework of price caps, but other states are watching to see what happens.

Prices and rates, California, Telephone, Telephony, California. Public Utilities Commission, Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.

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