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The development of remote computer access has resulted in among other things, the employment, by the data processing industry, of an important new raw material---telecommunication services. In the United States the principal source of this raw material is the communications common carrier industry. Each member is a "regulated common carrier"; a firm granted certain monopoly privileges and which, in return, must subject itself to review and regulation by the Federal Communications Commission (or appropriate state regulatory bodies) acting to safeguard the public interest. All of this might be very interesting but, until now, has been of relatively little concern to members of the data processing industry. However, as the computer becomes more dependent upon communications services, so too does the data processing industry become more subject to the structure and practices of an industry that has now become a principal supplier of one of its key inputs of raw material.