Deregulating Telecommunications: The Baby Bells Case for Competition

Higgins, Richard S., Rubin, Paul H.

ISBN 10: 0471962953 / ISBN 13: 9780471962953

Published by Wiley, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Deregulating Telecommunications: The Baby Bells Case for Competition
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471962953
• ISBN 13: 9780471962953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

In 1984, the Department of Justice settled its antitrust case against AT&T. The agreement, embedded in the Modification of Final Judgment, led to a divestiture of the local telephone exchanges from AT&T to the Regional Bell Operating Companies (known as the Baby Bells ). This agreement gave unprecedented power over a major US industry to one man, Judge Harold Greene of the US District Court of the District of Columbia. The Baby Bells could not enter any line of business without approval from Judge Greene. With technological change it became increasingly desirable for the Baby Bells to enter different lines of business, but each attempt was subject to legal challenge and lengthy, costly litigation. In 1994, the Baby Bells mounted a major legal challenge to the Modification of Final Judgement (MFJ).

About the Author

Richard S. Higgins is the author of Deregulating Telecommunications: The Baby Bells Case for Competition, published by Wiley.

Paul Harold Rubin is an American economist and the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Economics at Emory University. He was President of the Southern Economic Association in 2012-2013. He is also a research fellow at The Independent Institute.