To tariff or not to tariff - that's no longer the question. (Federal Communications Commission tariffs) (Column)

Business Communications Review, January, 1993 by Toth, Victor J.

Early last year, the Federal Communications Commission refused to reprimand MCI and award damages to AT&T in response to a nearly two-year-old complaint in which AT&T charged that MCI was making secret, preferential off-tariff deals with customers. To get the Commission's attention, AT&T asked a court to compel FCC action on the dispute.

AT&T's extreme course of action evoked a prompt FCC response. It retaliated by denying AT&T relief and by effectively ruling that MCI could continue offering off-tariff deals to preferred customers, at least until the Commission revisited its deregulation policies, which it promised to do "in due course." AT&T took that decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals, a court that was already angry at the Commission for not...

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