Re: And now, something completely different

[Paul Svensson <paul@svensson.org>]

On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>
>Paul Svensson writes:
>> potential applicants may wish research their liability under
>> statutes like, eg:
>> 
>> 	the 1890 Sherman Act, Section 1;
>> 	the 1958 Treaty of Rome, Article 85, section 1(a);
>> 	the Consolidated Statues of Canada, chapter C-34, part VI
>
>The CORE MoU is not going to violate antitrust laws, so none of these
>are a problem. Antitrust problems are very narrow -- they chiefly
>involve things like price fixing. The phone companies set up their 800
>number registry and the north american numbering plan organization
>just fine -- this is a nearly identical operation.

Perry,
Are you claiming that there's a waiting period imposed on the phone companies,
before they can make the numbers available for their customers to use ?

More than price fixing, antitrust legislation also concerns itself with fixing
of quantity or quality of delivered goods or services.
Speed is a quality of service.

	/Paul