Introduction—The New Telecommunications Environment
“… to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition …”
The goal of the U.S. Telecommunications Act of 19961
TELECOMMUNICATIONS LAW HAS EXISTED SINCE SYSTEMS WERE FIRST developed to carry communications over distances. Early law and international agreements addressed the technical and legal issues associated with postal and semaphoring systems, telegraph, and radio communications systems, especially ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communications. These issues ...
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