Court Reverses AT&T; Decision: A federal appeals...
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Court Reverses AT&T; Decision: A federal appeals court invalidated a Federal Communications Commission decision that allows American Telephone & Telegraph to discount long-distance packages for large corporations. The court held that the FCC did not fully examine whether the services violated the Communications Act. The service packages enable large companies to hire AT&T; to set up an integrated long-distance network to transmit voice, data and visual communications and manage the system. Several of AT&T;’s long-distance competitors argued that the services violated the Communications Act because they were so narrowly tailored that they were not generally available to all potential customers.
