A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Federal Communications Commission should take further steps to safeguard universal telephone service in the wake of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company divestiture.

Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should supplement its January 25, 1984, revision of the access charge decision to provide additional support for high-cost rural exchanges and use a uniform, nationwide rate of return to determine eligibility for such support; (2) the FCC should continue its policy of rate integration for interstate toll services to include the noncontiguous States and territories; (3) the FCC should establish a separate mechanism to ensure affordable telephone service for poverty-level consumers; (4) the FCC should institute no flat end user charges for residential and single-line business customers until it has determined that such charges will not threaten universal basic telephone service and provided the Senate with specified notice; (5) any flat end user charges that are instituted should be phased in more gradually than provided under the FCC's original access charge decision and should not exceed four dollars a month per line prior to 1990; (6) the accrued pension and related benefits of any person who was employed by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (ATT) or a Bell System company on December 31, 1983, should be transferred when that employee transfers to any entity that was an ATT affiliate on such date; and (7) ATT, its subsidiaries, and the former Bell System companies should be allowed to enter into interchange agreements to protect the pensions and other benefits of nonsupervisory, nonpolicymaking employees who were employed with such companies on December 31, 1983.