Under the F.C.C.'s new pricing regulations, cable rates were supposed to decline by an average of 10 percent.

Last month, for example, a preliminary study by the F.C.C. found that about a third of cable subscribers have seen their rates increase since the new pricing regulations went into place.

Has the mob been so thoroughly routed from the garbage-hauling business in New York City that decades-old pricing regulations can now be scrapped?

Almost one-third of cable television customers saw their rates rise rather than fall after new pricing regulations went into effect on Sept. 1, a preliminary survey shows.

The pricing regulations are meant to let rivals viably compete with the entrenched local phone companies by leasing access to their networks rather than having to build expensive duplicate systems.

The public will be the losers if galleries go private to avoid the pricing regulations and the dangers they invite.

The decision affirmed a judgment in a class-action lawsuit that charged Arco had violated Federal energy pricing regulations in effect from 1973 to 1981.

But some milk dealers in New York have complained that pricing regulations have kept them out of that market.

Commission approval of the new pricing regulation is expected early next year.

Some industry executives said the court's decision to halt the pricing regulations - while allowing the other rules to take effect - could mitigate the effect of the ruling on local competition.