U.S. Appeals Court upholds FCC rules intended to lower long-distance rates.

Reports that on August 19, 1998, a three-judge panel of the Eighth United States Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Missouri upheld regulations by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that are aimed at lowering long-distance telephone rates. Terms of the court's ruling; When the US Congress ordered the FCC to overhaul the system of access charges to promote telephone competition; Details on the regulations by the FCC.