Deregulating Telecommunications: The Baby Bells Case for Competition

by Richard S. Higgins and Paul H. Rubin

In 1984, the Department of Justice settled its antitrust caseagainst AT&T. The agreement, embedded in the Modification ofFinal Judgment, led to a divestiture of the local telephoneexchanges from AT&T to the Regional Bell Operating Companies(known as the Baby Bells ). This agreement gave unprecedented powerover a major US industry to one man, Judge Harold Greene of the USDistrict Court of the District of Columbia. The Baby Bells couldnot enter any...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471962953
• ISBN13: 9780471962953
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.6" x 19.6" x 25.3"