Telephone Communications: The FCC's (Federal Communications Commission's) Monitoring of Residential Telephone Service

摘要

Between 1983 and 1985, the FCC worked on developing a monitoring program that would enable it to determine whether its regulatory decisions were affecting the availability and use of residential telephone service, how residential telephone service prices were changing, and why prices changed. Beginning with a 1983 proposal to monitor subscribership levels and prices in considerable detail, the FCC eventually adopted a much more general approach to monitoring.