Article: Gore pursues dereg at G7 summit. (Vice President Albert Gore Jr.; telecommunications deregulation; Group of Seven)

Brussels, Belgium - By throwing down the gauntlet to the world's other six major industrialized nations at the Group of Seven summit here, Vice President Al Gore hopes to push the global powers to deregulate their telecommunications industries soon.

Otherwise, Gore warned, they won't get any more freedom to enter the lucrative U.S. market.

Gore made a surprise pledge at the G7 meeting here Feb. 24-26 to loosen or eliminate the United States' 20 percent foreign ownership cap on common carrier and wireless providers this year. His administration hopes that the move will lead others to follow, resulting in bilateral agreements and possibly a multilateral ...

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