peterm@sumax.seattleu.edu> (05/07/91)
Per the 4/8 edition of TELECOMMUNICATIONS WEEK, there have been two
days of oral argument before Judge Greene on 4/18-19 focused on issues
of the MFJ's info services restriction.
Some of the ten topics Greene outlined for oral argument included: "In
determining whether the lifting of the information services
restriction would be anticompetitive, to what extent may the court
consider and what weight may it give to the pre-divestiture history,
... and regional company anticompetitive acts, if any, since 1984?"
"What weight is the court required to give to the views of the
Department of Justice on legal, factual,or mixed issues?"
"What opportunities, if any, exist for the subsidization of
information services in funds or in kind from monies received by the
regional companies as a result of their regulated telephone
activities?"
"May a regional company acquire and use for the development or
marketing of information services information obtained about customers
in the course of its regulated business?"
"By what specific methods could regional companies discriminate
effectively against particular classes of competing information
services providers?"
"Do telephone information services constitute a separate market, or
are they part of a broader information services market?"
"What is the current status and effectiveness of FCC and state
regulations with respect to information services?"
"Can cable, cellular, or other technology at this time provide
sufficient access to information services to decrease or eliminate the
dependency of information services providers on the local exchange
system?"
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