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Principal Rate Changes Proposed for Program Trans mission Services by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company
I. Schedule A Channel
Receiving Connection Transmitting Connection Channel Reversals
Switches
Proposed
Tariff F.C.C. No. 198
$8 per air-line miles per month (ratio of route billing mileage to air-line mileage is 1.2 to 1).
$175 per month.
$80 per month.
$.04 per air-line mile including restoral to normal (which experience shows more closely ap¬ proximates the labor involved).
$1.25 per switch (restoral to normal considered another switch).
Present
Tariff F.C.C. No. 139
$84 per route mile per year.
$4000 per year.
$1000 per year.
$.023 per route mile, including restoral to normal.
$2.50 per switch, including restoral to normal.
II. Schedule A Minus Schedule discontinued.
Channel (Extensions from Schedule A networks)
Connections
$72 per route mile per year. $2000 per year.
III. Schedule B Channel
Receiving Connection
Transmitting Connection
$.20 per air-line mile per hour. The Schedule A charge will be the maximum charge. $.03 extra per air-line mile per hour for Morse channel, if desired.
$80 per month plus $2.50 per hour of use. The Schedule A charge will be the maximum charge.
$80 per month.
$.40 to $.15 (latter rate effective after
155 hours' use) per route mile per hour including Morse channel.
$100 for first two weeks and $100 for each additional month plus $2.50 for each hour of use.
Same as receiving connection.
IV. Schedule C Channel
$5.20 per air-line mile per month. $4.25 per air-line mile for two weeks.
$5 per route mile per month. $4 per route mile for two weeks.
Connections
Channel Reversals Switches
Setting up Charge
V. Schedule D Channel
Connections Setting up Charge
VI. Schedule E Channel
Connections
$60 per month or $50 for two weeks, when fur¬ nished. (Not required when customer fur¬ nishes own amplifiers.)
$75 per month, or $60 for two weeks for connections in excess of two per network.
$.025 per air-line mile, including restoral to normal.
$.015 per route mile, including restoral to normal.
$.60 per switch (restoral to normal considered as another switch).
None.
$1.25 per switch including restoral to normal.
$12.50 per exchange connected.
$.15 per air-line mile per hour. The Schedule C charge will be the maximum charge.
$1.25 per hour with a minimum charge of $40 per month when furnished. The Schedule C charge will be the maximum charge.
$.125 per route mile per hour.
$50 per month plus $1.25 per hour of use for connections in excess of two per network.
None.
$12.50 per exchange for first occasion. $5 per exchange for each additional occasion.
$.10 per air-line mile for the first hour.
$.025 per air-line mile for each additional con¬ secutive 15 minutes.
$.10 for first 15 minutes per air-line mile.
$.03 per air-line mile for each addi¬ tional consecutive 15 minutes.
$1 per hour with a minimum charge of $25 per $50 per month and $1 per hour of opermonth, when furnished. ation, or $25 per occasion, for con¬
nections in excess of two per network.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACTION Complaints
The Federal Trade Commission has alleged unfair competition in complaints against the following firms. The respondents will be given an opportunity for hearing to show cause why cease and desist orders should not be issued against them.
No. 2655. Allegedly engaged in a scheme that deceives the pur¬ chasing public and injures competitors, an eastern group of manu¬ facturers of and dealers in radio sets, tubes and appliances are charged with unfair methods of competition in an amended and
supplemental complaint. Also included as respondents are six corporations manufacturing and selling name plates and escutcheons for use on radio sets.
Without authority or consent of the legal owners, the respond¬ ents, the amended and supplemental complaint charges, have adopted for use on their radio sets the names, brands and symbols of corporations and individuals well known and long established in the radio and kindred industries. The complaint lists the fol¬ lowing names, brands and symbols as among those used by the respondents on their radio sets and appliances:
Marconi, Marconi International, Marconi Radio Corpora¬ tion; Edison, Edison International, Edison-Bell, Edison with
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