roundtable: CLINTON ATTACKS CONGRESS TELECOM BILL (from EDUPAGE)

roundtable: CLINTON ATTACKS CONGRESS TELECOM BILL (from EDUPAGE)

CLINTON ATTACKS CONGRESS TELECOM BILL (from EDUPAGE)

W. Curtiss Priest (BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu)
Tue, 31 Oct 95 09:27:33 EST 

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Date:         Tue, 31 Oct 95 09:27:33 EST
From: "W. Curtiss Priest" <BMSLIB@mitvma.mit.edu>
Subject:      CLINTON  ATTACKS CONGRESS TELECOM BILL (from EDUPAGE)
To: Telecommunications Policy Roundtable <ROUNDTABLE@CNI.ORG>


CLINTON  ATTACKS CONGRESS TELECOM BILL
President Clinton has attacked the bill (now in a House-Senate conference
committee) that would drastically overhaul the nation's telecommunications
laws and encourage greater competition among local phone, long-distance and
cable TV companies.  The President objects to provisions that would allow
regional Bell companies to enter the long-distance market before the Justice
Department determines they are facing real competition in their own local
markets; deregulate cable TV rates; allow telephone companies to buy as much
as 49% control of local cable television companies; and relax restrictions
that prevent a company that owns a newspaper from acquiring TV and radio
stations in the same city.  (New York Times 28 Oct 95 p17)

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