Telecommunication Deregulation

Telecommunication Deregulation

• 1968 Carterfone decision
  • (Non AT&T equipment could connect to the phoneline)
• 1972 AT&T’s first competitor
  • MCI wins a license to transmit calls between Chicago and St Louis
• 1975 Telephone go mobile
  • FCC allocates spectrum
• 1984 Divestiture under Judge Harold Greene
• 1987 TV networks lose control
  • Cable TV reaches 50% of homes
• 1994 Cable TV competition
  • Hughes Satellite starts DirecTV
• 1995 AT&T announces it will breakup again
• 1996 Deregulation

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Cable TV reaches 66% of homes today and commands more than 50% of viewing time.

DirecTV -175 channels on an 18” dish In one year there were 1.3 million subscribers. There will be six Direct Broadcast Systems (DBS) by th end of 1996