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- Title: Reexamining the Legacy of Dual Regulation: Reforming Dual Merger Review by the DOJ and the FCC. (The Enduring Lessons of the Breakup of AT&T: A Twenty-Five Year Retrospective)
- Author : Federal Communications Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 375 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION The AT&T antitrust case produced, for a twelve-year period, a world of two regulators: the AT&T consent decree court (with assistance from the U.S. Department of Justice) and the FCC. In general, the two authorities worked in tandem with one another, but the mismatch of tasking a judge with overseeing an ambitious regulatory regime led Congress to terminate the AT&T consent decree in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1996 Act) and replace it with FCC oversight. (1) At the same time, however, the 1996 Act left in place a regime of dual merger review. In so doing, Congress ignored the concerns of the dual regulation in this context. Over the last twelve years (the same time period that the AT&T consent decree was in force), the limitations of dual regulation in the merger review context have become clear and call for reform.