User Needs and Concerns in Telecommunications Marketplace: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, June 23, 24, August 18, 19, and September 11, 1981 |
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Page 138 - I thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to appear before this very distinguished committee today.
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Page 181 - The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission or of my fellow Commissioners.
Page 408 - has exerted its beneficial influences to the utmost. It has become the symbol for the social optimum. Its importance for us here is in giving us a basis against which we can compare the effect of monopoly in order to see the social loss, if any, that the existence of a monopoly brings about. Is the social optimum that position at which prices are equal to average cost, or that at which price equals marginal cost...
Page 17 - I am testifying today on behalf of the National Retail Merchants Association, the nation's largest trade association for the general merchandise retail industry.
Page 81 - The utility would then be obligated, under strict audit, to pass such monthly contributions over to the Residential Utility Consumer Action Group. A RUCAG would use traditional elective procedures. ' Its membership — all those residential consumers contributing a small minimum amount to the fund — would each have one vote in the yearly election of a Board of Directors. The Board would be responsible for hiring the staff, intervening in rate proceedings, handling consumer complaints and insuring...
Page 217 - That is the law. Senator HAYDEN. Well, what I am getting at is that it seems to me that if it is true that the Board is understaffed so that it cannot take care of the disputes, then have we appropriated enough money and given them enough personnel? That is the wisdom of the thing I want to question. Senator MCCARRAN. I do not have any doubt as to the answer to that query, that they have...
Page 433 - GEAR] who sits near me that the board has already gone. I do not know whether that is the case or not, but I have a right to assume, when we read this in the newspapers and see no contradiction of it, that the board is expected to exercise the character of power here described, and that the board is at an early day to set about doing it. I desire to protest against it, and I think the effective way of...
Page 269 - I am an attorney licensed to practice in the State of Illinois and have been associated with the growing, shipping, receiving, and distribution of fruits and vegetables for a long period of time. I ain a member of and represent the Potato & Onion Association of Chicago ; I am also a member of the United Fresh...
Page 81 - ... sophisticated staff? Such an organization could be established by state law or utility commission regulation and would be funded through a check-off. The check-off would work this way. Included within every monthly bill of each and every utility in the state sent to residential consumers would be room on the bill for listing a voluntary contribution. If the consumer desired, he or she could check off the amount to be contributed to their action group and add it to their utility bill. The utility...