Universal Telephone Service Preservation Act of 1983: Joint Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate and Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 1660 ... H.R. 3621 ... July 28 and 29, 1983 |
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... phone service in the new environment . The bill targets moneys for a special lifeline telephone service rate for low income Americans , recognizing that poverty is not a rural or urban problem . H.R. 3647 establishes a National Lifeline ...
... phone service in the new environment . The bill targets moneys for a special lifeline telephone service rate for low income Americans , recognizing that poverty is not a rural or urban problem . H.R. 3647 establishes a National Lifeline ...
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... telephone service will become so expensive as to be almost prohibitive . In many small towns , such as my own hometown of Humboldt , S. Dak . , which has 487 people , many of them senior citizens , tele- phone service will become a ...
... telephone service will become so expensive as to be almost prohibitive . In many small towns , such as my own hometown of Humboldt , S. Dak . , which has 487 people , many of them senior citizens , tele- phone service will become a ...
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... telephone legislation : A change in the existing subsidy mechanism can only be justified if it pre- sents no danger to the continuing availability of universal tele- phone service at affordable rates . The FCC's access charge decision ...
... telephone legislation : A change in the existing subsidy mechanism can only be justified if it pre- sents no danger to the continuing availability of universal tele- phone service at affordable rates . The FCC's access charge decision ...
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... telephone service is threatened . The reduction or elimination of subsidies will result in economic efficiency and will promote technological innovation . A few of my colleagues in the House and Senate Commerce Com- mittee appear to ...
... telephone service is threatened . The reduction or elimination of subsidies will result in economic efficiency and will promote technological innovation . A few of my colleagues in the House and Senate Commerce Com- mittee appear to ...
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... services . In the case of telephone service , as with nearly every segment of our economy , national policy must dictate . some of the boundaries of the free market . I am here today to suggest that the national good requires boundaries ...
... services . In the case of telephone service , as with nearly every segment of our economy , national policy must dictate . some of the boundaries of the free market . I am here today to suggest that the national good requires boundaries ...
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Page 60 - For the purpose of regulating Interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the united States a rapid, efficient, nation-wide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
Page 308 - Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Virgin Islands Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming...
Page 117 - Islands engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers. Our chief objective is to serve the public interest by seeking to improve the quality and effectiveness of public regulation in America.
Page 361 - ... consumers Union is a nonprofit membership organization chartered in 1936 under the laws of the State of New York to provide information, education and counsel about consumer goods and services and the management of family income. Consumers Union's income is derived solely from the sale of Consumer Reports, its other publications and films. Expenses of occasional public service efforts may be met, in part, by nonrestrictive, noncommercial contributions, grants and fees.
Page 423 - Secretary to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Page 117 - States and of the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers.
Page 410 - All critical communications facilities, particularly those having to do with relaying and control of important circuits and other system elements, should be the responsibility of the operating utility and under its complete control. [Emphasis added].
Page 243 - Association (NTCA); and the organization for the Protection and Advancement of Small Telephone Companies (OPASTCO...
Page 114 - Board shall submit to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives...
Page 246 - ON BEHALF OF NATIONAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION Good Morning, Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee. My name is Lawrence Ware, and I am the Manager of the Garden Valley Telephone Company in Erskine, Minnesota.