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- Computer Anarchists Underground Tfile #010 -
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Title: FCC opens local phone market
Author: M.C. Allah
Released: 9-18-92
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Well, this article appeared in the Houston Post on
September 18, and I thought it might be of interest to some
people, so here it is:
FCC opens local phone market
The Federal Communications Commission moved
Thursday[9-17-92] to open the $90 billion local telephone
exchange market to new competition.
FCC Chairman Alfred Sikes said the order, which requires
local exchange operators such as the regional Bell telephone
companies to offer their facilities to smaller comminications
companies, is "a historic step."
He said access to local markets was "one of the few
remaining monopoly reserves of the American telephone
business."
The decision could be a boon to such companies as
Metropolitan Fiber Systems Inc. and Teleport Communications
Group, both of which operate fiber optic networks in Houston.
Under the order, "competitive access providers" such as
Teleport will be able to install their equipment inside local
telephone company switching centers, rather than having to run
a dedicated line to a customer's building. The ruling will
allow the competitive access providers to connect directly
with long-distance carriers.
Long distance companies have a similar arrangement,
allowing interstate calls to pass through local telephone
company networks and into the home.
In a related move, the agency also adopted a new rate
structure that would allow a two-year transition to more
flexible pricing on fees charged by local service providers to
long-distance carriers.
The regional phone companies, created during the breakup
of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in 1984, initially had
feared they might be hurt by the increased competition unless
the FCC also adopted a new pricing structure.
Analysts said the impact on regional phone company
revenues would not be felt immediately, given the FCC's
decision to phase in the new rate structure.
What does this mean for us phreakers and hackers?
Remember the AT&T breakup? It was in the confusion
caused by this and the formation of new telephone companies
like sprint and MCi that toll phraud was "safe." I would
expect that these new phone companies
will have a lot of problems with stopping k0de abuse at first,
and probably the regional Bell companies will not be to happy
to help them. So, I would expect some positive results from
this change.
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