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Page 6/The Battalion/Friday, January 20, 1984
FCC delays access charges
Arbor day R
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
Federal Communications Com
mission, responding to a storm
of protest from Congress and
consumers, tentatively voted
Thursday to delay — as late as
June 1985 — $2-a-month tele
phone access charges for re
sidential and small business cus-
The agency also said that
when the flat monthly long-
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distance surcharges, which had
been set to start April 3, go into
effect, they should be phased in
gradually until 1990 and climb
no higher than $4.
The commissioners agreed to
meet next Wednesday to issue a
final ruling on the decision.
They are taking a major shift in
position reflecting virtually ev
ery suggestion contained in a let
ter that 32 senators, led by Sen.
Robert Dole, R-Kan., sent to the
FCC Wednesday.
But the decision apparently
will not halt legislation aimed at
delaying the charges for two
years. Sen. Robert Packwood, R-
Ore., chief sponsor of the mea
sure that goes much further
than the FCC decision, said he
will bring it to the floor for de
bate next week and still expects it
to pass.
The House already has pas
sed a bill to totally ban the
charges for residential and small
business customers.
Consumer groups, which
want the charges eliminated, cal
led the FCC decision a “transpa
rent” tactic to delay the political
ly charged issue until after the
1984 elections.
The biggest winners in the
decision were long-distance
companies such as MCI and
Sprint that compete with Amer
ican Telephone & Telegraph.
Under the new plan, the com
panies would pay more for their
connections to local lines but
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would get a 55 percent discount
— a sharply larger price break
than the 20 percent to 25 per
cent post-divestiture discount
initially planned by the FCC.
The discount would continue
until the quality of the connec
tion for the competing firms is
improved to equal that of
AT&T’s.
While delaying the surcharge
to individuals and businesses
with one phone line will save cus
tomers some money.
FCC Chairman Mark Fowler
said the action also would re
duce or eliminate the $1.75 bil
lion cut in long-distance phone
rates AT&T had originally plan
ned to coincide with its breakup
Jan. 1, a development he called
“most unfortunate.”
The commissioners said ac
cess charges that large business
customers’ pay for their hook up
to long distance services — $6
per line — will go into effect
April 3 as scheduled.
Jack Smith, head of the agen
cy’s Common Carrier Division,
told reporters the FCC expects
to complete a study of the sur
charges by Dec. 1, but that they
may not be imposed until late
spring or June 1985 because of
required procedures.
The commissioners said the
decision to delay the charges
came in response to a crush of
protests from the public, state
governments, state regulatory
agencies, Congress and
businesses.
By ERIN K. PYLE
Reporter
Today is the lllthannii
sary of Arbor Day, andtbtj
of College Station iscelebn;
with a tree planting cereimt,
the Southwood Athletic Piii|
4 p.m.
The word “arbor" is c
from the Latin term mej
tree. Arbor Day was oriji
conceived as a beautificatiod
for public grounds, but ill)
grown to represent the ini
ance of forestry preservatittl
Arbor Day originatedin)#
raska in 1872. The ideaa
name of Arbor Day werepii
osed by J. Sterling Mortouf
member of the Nebraska!
of Agriculture who laterwuj
U.S. secretary of agricultutt]
In Nebraska, Arbor Dii] f j
observed on April 22, Mond
birthday. Observance of ^ ^j er
Dav has spread throughomi
ay ' T
U.S. and to foreign counts jia\
The date of the obsemj
varies, but the last FridaJ
dsm
April has been adopted in
al stales.
College Station Mayor C jy ai
Halter, Mike Owens, cuniBoc
lum director of College St
Independent School Dis
the Rev. Bill Oxley of St.
mas Episcopal Church
Dorothy Miller, currentdir
of Brazos Beautiful Inc.,at
tywide beautification ore
lion, will
program.
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Jan. 28,
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Feb. 1,
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