home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!das-news.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!hs1c+
- From: DowJones@andrew.cmu.edu
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.spain
- Subject: Spain's Phone Firm Gets FCC Go-Ahead On Puerto Rican Deal
- Message-ID: <cfBRkmW00Uj5A0sY8I@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 05:01:06 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.cfBRkmW00Uj5A0sY8I
- Organization: Doctoral student, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 23
-
-
-
-
- WASHINGTON -- The Federal Communications Commission cleared the way
- for Spain's telephone company to buy the second-largest long-distance
- concern in Puerto Rico, marking the first time a foreign phone company
- will own a U.S. carrier that operates its own network.
-
- In approving the sale of Telefonica Larga Distancia de Puerto Rico,
- owned by the government of Puerto Rico, to LD Acquisition Corp., a unit
- of Telefonica de Espana, the commission imposed certain conditions to
- protect competition. Many of the safeguards restrict Telefonica's ownership
- or operation of international telephone cables.
-
- American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the largest long-distance carrier
- operating in Puerto Rico, objected to the sale. The ruling, AT&T said,
- "sanctions the right of government-owned foreign long-distance carriers
- to compete for AT&T customers in the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin
- Islands, when we are legally blocked from competing for theirs." AT&T
- has been pushing for an interagency review of U.S. international telecommunica-
- tions policy.
-
- 10 01 AM
-