TELEPHONE

Analyses

Dial-a-Porn Amendment to the Dept. of Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations (H.R. 3566), 29902 [17NO]

Articles and editorials

Bell Babies Clearly Require a New Formula, 10199 [24MY]

Consumers on Hold—The Future Could Be Today if the Baby Bells Were Allowed To Grow Up, 26878-26880 [1NO]

Peephole Telephoning, 8582 [9MY]

Ruling May Lead to Punitive Duties on Asian Phones, 19138 [4AU]

South Central Bell Takes Over Hughes—Official Says Customers Won't See Immediate Changes, 19126 [4AU]

Tapping Into a Scandal—Fired Workers Say Cincinnati Bell, Police Bugged Lines, 7026 [18AP]

Bills and resolutions

Advertising: prohibit certain practices relative to solicitation (see H.R. 2921)

Automatic dialing devices: prohibit certain practices (see H.R. 628, 2131)

Bell companies: conduct research on, design, and manufacture of telecommunications equipment (see S. 1981)

Business: prohibit certain practices involving the commercial use of facsimile machines (see H.R. 2184)

Cellular Communication Competition Act: enact (see S. 1907)

Crime and criminals: disclosure of names and addresses to governmental authorities relative to certain supplied phone numbers (see H.R. 2082)

FCC: determine the effects of price cap regulation on interstate rates (see H.R. 1572)

———postpone effective date of certain financial syndication rules (see H.R. 2836)

FTC: strengthen authority relative to telephone fraud (see H.R. 1354)

Handicapped: hearing- and speech-impaired individuals access 911 emergency service (see H.R. 1690)

National Pay Telephone Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 428)

National Telecommunicators Week: designate (see H.J. Res. 284)

National Telephone Operators Recognition Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 352)

Operating companies: services and equipment to consumers (see H.R. 2140)

Operator services: regulation (see S. 1643, 1660; H.R. 971)

Pornography: restrict children's access to indecent telephone communications (see H.R. 2755)

———transmission of obscene and indecent material (see S. 72, 250)

REA: prepayment and refinancing of loans made to rural telephone systems (see S. 115; H.R. 3164)

REA Lending Assistance Improvements Act: enact (see H.R. 1232)

Rural Access to Telecommunications Services Act: enact (see S. 759)

Rural areas: improvement of telephone services (see H.R. 3564)

———taxation of electric or telephone cooperatives (see S. 988)

Small companies: safeguards for subscribers relative to interstate service rates (see H.R. 1238)

Taxation: excise tax on companies relative to charges on blocking access to certain exchanges (see H.R. 3201)

Technology: industry-led consortium (see H.R. 2287)

Telephone Indecency Prevention Act: enact (see S. 1414)

Telephone Operator Service Consumer Protection Act: enact (see S. 1643)

Commentaries

Telecommunications industry competitiveness: Paul Harvey, 7726 [2MY]

Court decisions

Sable Communications of California, Inc. v. FCC (dial-a-porn): Supreme Court, 29336 [16NO]

Letters

Keeping dial-a-porn messages out of the reach of minors: Alan E. Sears, Children's Legal Foundation, 29336 [16NO]

———Peggy M. Coleman, American Family Association Foundation, 29336 [16NO]

Memorandums

Investigation of Timothy C. Brown as Related to Certain Telephone Charges and Purchase of Satellite Antenna When Principal Officer, American Consulate Martinique: Sherman M. Funk, 19055 [4AU]

Remarks in House

Advertising: prohibit certain practices relative to solicitation (H.R. 2921), 15090 [18JY]

Automatic dialing devices: prohibit certain practices (H.R. 2131), 7577 [26AP]

Bell companies: effects of restrictions imposed by AT&T divestiture, 26878 [1NO]

———research, design and manufacture of telecommunications equipment (S. 1981), 31771 [21NO]

Business: prohibit certain practices involving the commercial use of facsimile machines (H.R. 2184), 7873, 7886 [2MY]

FCC: determine the effects of price cap regulation on interstate rates (H.R. 1572), 5203 [22MR]

———impact of access charges on enhanced service providers, 27823 [7NO]

Foreign trade: increase telecommunications industry competitiveness, 7726 [2MY]

FTC: strengthen authority relative to fraud (H.R. 1354), 4050 [13MR]

Hughes Telephone Co.: sale to South Central Bell, 19126 [4AU]

National Telephone Operators Recognition Day: designate (H.J. Res. 352), 14246 [11JY]

Northern Telecom, Inc.: optical fiber technology, 30707 [21NO]

Operator services: regulation (H.R. 971), 2039-2043 [9FE], 21465-21470 [25SE]

Operating companies: services and equipment to consumers (H.R. 2140), 7592 [27AP], 7626 [27AP], 10199 [24MY]

Oregon: free telephone services for low-income individuals, 7708 [1MY]

Pacific Bell: community telephone for California's homeless and needy, 28950 [14NO]

Pornography: regulation of dial-a-porn, 29901, 29905-29908 [17NO]

———restrict children's access to indecent telephone communications (H.R. 2755), 13500 [27JN], 13649 [27JN]

REA Assistance Improvements Act: enact (H.R. 1232), 4480 [16MR], 5902 [10AP], 5677 [6AP]

Rural Telecommunications Improvements Act: enact, 30680 [21NO]

Small companies: safeguards for subscribers relative to interstate service rates (H.R. 1238), 3411 [2MR]

Taxation: excise tax on companies relative to charges on blocking access to certain exchanges (H.R. 3201), 19443 [4AU]

Telephone Pioneer Month: observance, 30062 [17NO]

Remarks in Senate

Bell companies: research, design and manufacture of telecommunications equipment (S. 1981), 31572 [21NO]

Cellular Communication Competition Act: enact (S. 1907), 29758 [17NO]

FCC: use of value-based assignments in awarding licenses (S. 170), 819 [25JA]

Northern Telecom, Inc.: tribute, 29432 [16NO]

Operator services: regulation (S. 1660), 21379 [22SE], 21447 [25SE]

Pornography: obscene communication for commercial purposes, 29329 [16NO]

———proscribe obscene material transmitted by means of intrastate communications (S. 250), 997 [25JA]

———transmission of obscene and indecent material (S. 72), 425 [25JA]

Privacy, 8582 [9MY]

REA: prepayment and refinancing of loans made to rura telephone systems (S. 1115), 10673 [1JN]

Rural Access to Telecommunications Services Act: enact (S. 759), 6031, 6033 [11AP]

Telephone Indecency Prevention Act: enact (S. 1414), 16674 [27JY]

Telephone Operator Service Consumer Protection Act: enact (S. 1643), 20884 [19SE]

Wiretapping: protection of civil liberties, 7025 [18AP]

Reports filed

Dial-a-Porn Provisions of Budget Reconciliation Act, 29337 [16NO]

Statements

Research on Bell Telephone Companies Equipment: several organizations, 31772 [21NO]

Tables

Telephone calls provided free to low-income individuals in Oregon, 7708 [1MY]

Texts of

H.R. 971, Telephone Operator Service Consumer Protection Act, 21465 [25SE]

H.R. 1232, REA Lending Assistance Improvements Act, 3401 [2MR]

S. 170, Spectrum Assignment Improvements Act, 820 [25JA]

S. 250, FCC prohibition of obscene material transmitted intrastate by telephone, 998 [25JA]

S. 759, Rural Access to Telecommunications Services Act, 6032 [11AP]

S. 1115, prepayment and refinancing of loans made to rural electrification and telephone systems, 10673 [1JN]

S. 1414, Telephone Indecency Prevention Act, 16674 [27JY]

S. 1643, Telephone Operator Service Consumer Protection, 20884 [19SE]

S. 1907, Cellular Communication Competition Act, 29759 [17NO]