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Telecommunications policy addresses the management of government-owned resources such as the spectrum, which facilitates all wireless communications. There is a naturally limited quantity of usable spectrum that exists, therefore the market demand is immense, especially as use of mobile technology, which uses the electromagnetic spectrum, expands.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is a United States federal law enacted by the 104th United States Congress on January 3, 1996, and signed into law on February 8, 1996, by President Bill Clinton. It primarily amended Chapter 5 of Title 47 of the United States Code .
Communications law [1] refers to the regulation of electronic communications by wire or radio. [2] It encompasses regulations governing broadcasting, telephone and telecommunications service, cable television, satellite communications, [ 3 ] wireless telecommunications, and the Internet.
Significant laws in the history of U.S. telecommunications include: Wireless Ship Act of 1910, the first radio regulations; Mann–Elkins Act of 1910, granting the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to regulate telephones, telegraphs, and wireless telegraphs; Radio Act of 1912, the first to require radio licenses
Overridden by the Senate and became law on October 5, 1992 The Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 (also known as the 1992 Cable Act ) is a United States federal law which required cable television systems to carry most local broadcast television channels and prohibited cable operators from charging local ...
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) was passed by the United States Congress in 1991 and signed into law by President George H. W. Bush as Public Law 102-243. It amended the Communications Act of 1934. The TCPA is codified as 47 U.S.C. § 227.
A telecommunications tariff is an open contract between a telecommunications service provider and the public, filed with a regulating body such as state and municipal Public Utilities Commissions and federal entities such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). [1]
The duty to provide, to any requesting telecommunications carrier for the provision of a telecommunications service, nondiscriminatory access to network elements on an unbundled basis at any technically feasible point on rates, terms, and conditions that are just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory in accordance with the terms and conditions of ...