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28 Antitrust Bull. 1 (1983)

handle is hein.journals/antibull28 and id is 1 raw text is: The Antitrust Bulletin/Spring 1983

Antitrust and communications
deregulation
BY DONALD I. BAKER* and BEVERLY G. BAKER**
I. Deregulation and divestiture: 1959-1983
There is a fundamental tension between market-dictated results
and economic regulation; between competition based on effi-
ciency' and assuring broad rapid, efficient, Nation-wide and
world-wide . . . communication service with adequate facilities
at reasonable charges;' between a rule of law administered by
generalist judges and a rule of man administered by experts.
Partner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D.C. Mem-
ber of the Massachusetts and District of Columbia bars. Former
Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division, U.S.
Department of Justice.
Attorney, Common Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications
Commission, Washington, D.C. Member of the Ohio and District of
Columbia bars.
AUTHORS' NOTE: The views expressed are those of the authors and do
not necessarily represent those of the Federal Communications Commis-
sion.
I   Connell Construction Co. v. Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 100,
421 U.S. 616, 623 (1975).
2   Communications Act of 1934, as amended, § 1, 47 U.S.C. § 151.

© 1983 by Donald I. Baker and Beverly G. Baker. All rights reserved.