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Regulatory developments in data communications: the past five years

Abstract: Since its creation in 1934, the Federal Communications Commission has exercised regulatory jurisdiction over all interstate common carrier communications service in the U.S. The Commission has broad powers to review rates and tariffs, determine investment and operating practices, approve new plant installations, and literally shape the entire communications carrier industry, but historically the Commission has failed to exercise these powers vigorously. Instead it, like most government regulatory agencies, has tended to become dominated by the industry it supposedly regulates, and has come to place the status quo high on its list of values to be protected; until recently, that is.