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Article: FCC Allows Increased Phone Service to Soviet Union
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 22, 1991
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After days of snarled telephone traffic to the Soviet Union, the
Federal Communications Commission yesterday authorized two American
telecommunications companies to temporarily increase service between
the United States and the Soviet Union.
The FCC action will allow American Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
the major international carrier in the Soviet Union, and IDB
Telecommunications Services Co. in Los Angeles to use 24 circuits
each on the Soviet satellite system Intersputnik.
Use of the Intersputnik circuits will be the first time that
Soviet satellites will carry voice communication between the two
countries.