Abstract

Who Will Bell the Colossus?

This article focuses on problems of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in developing the conventional tools of utility regulation or fostered collaboration with the Anti-Trust Division for effective supervision of interstate and foreign communication activities of the Bell system. The whole context is centralized for the U.S. based telecommunication firm AT&T and its regulation in the public interest. One of the most obvious reason for the inadequacy of FCC regulation, is supposed to be an insufficient budget. In context of AT&T, its influence in the lobbies of Congress has been a considered factor. In suggesting solutions for sorting out these problems, it described that the FCC should be remolded from its quasi-judicial structure into an executive body with an openly political approach.