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	Telecommunications Act of 1996 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the first major overhaul of United States telecommunications policy in nearly 62 years, modifying earlier legislation, primarily the Communications Act of 1934.
		The general intention of the Act was deregulation and promotion of competition.
		Brinkley Act - Section 325(b) of the Communications Act of 1934 that was written into law in an attempt to halt live broadcasting from radio studios in the United States linked via telephone land lines to superpower border-blaster transmitters located along the Mexican side of the Rio Grande (Rio Bravo), international boder.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Telecom_Reform_Act (331 words)

	Telecom Reform Act - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Telecom Reform Act (TRA), signed into law by United States President Bill Clinton on February 8, 1996, removed barriers that prevented various corporations from competing head to head and was meant to foster competition.
		The FCC was given a mandate to enforce the act.
		As part of the Telecom Reform Act, the Communications Decency Act (CDA) was also signed.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Telecom_Reform_Act (254 words)

	Berkshire Connect, Inc.
		While the Telecom Reform Act was enacted with the best of intentions, its success has been slow in spurring the fervent competitive spark that was originally predicted.
		The Telecom Reform Act of 1996 laid out a path to opening the markets to competition, he points out, and having all of the RBOCs like Verizon open up their networks and allowing these competitors to use them.
		While Conversent is not the largest telecom provider - based on number of customers - in the state, it is one of the successful ones that survived the telecom shakeout.
	www.bconnect.org /5_20_02.htm (3460 words)

	Encyclopedia: Telecom Reform Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		On January 3, 1996, the 104th Congress of the United States amended or repealed sections of the the Communications Act of 1934 with the new Telecommunications Act of 1996.
		On January 3, 1996, the 104th Congress of the United States amended or repealed sections of the the Communications Act of 1934 with the new Telecommunications Act of 1996 to regulate:
		A Legislative History of the Communications Act of 1934, by Paglin, Max D. - Oxford University Press, New York.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Telecom-Reform-Act (391 words)

	Parker.html
		The author agrees with Thomas Krattenmaker's belief, expressed in The Telecommunications Act of 1996, infra, that legal balkanization is one of the primary factors behind the promulgation of the new Act.
		The article traces the history of the 1996 Act, gives a brief summary of the Act and lists the lessons learned to date when ADR has been utilized as the primary means of negotiation in issues regarding the 1996 Act.
		Although Congress promulgated the 1996 Act with a vision towards creating separate, yet inevitably intermingled roles both for the FCC and State commissions, the authors of this selection note that questions of federalism and the scope of state and federal power arise from this piece of legislation.
	www.law.indiana.edu /fclj/pubs/v49/no3/biblio.html (3923 words)

	BW Online \| April 23, 2001 \| Telecom Meltdown
		Ultimately, the telecom meltdown could be almost as costly as the $150 billion taxpayer bailout of the savings and loan industry in the late 1980s.
		In Europe, British Telecom (BTY), France Télécom (FTE), Deutsche Telekom (DT), and KPN (KPN) went so far into debt for new wireless licenses that they may need to find merger partners to be able to afford the construction costs of the new networks.
		By the time the Reform Act passed in 1996, MFS had networks in most of the big cities in the U.S., and WorldCom agreed to buy the company for a staggering $14 billion, only slightly less than what SBC had paid for Baby Bell Pacific Telesis Group earlier that year.
	aol.businessweek.com /magazine/content/01_17/b3729007.htm (3068 words)

	Telephony: Ramifications of reform: new markets emerge for telcos, IXCs and CATV operators - interexchange carriers; ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The reform act stipulates that VDT carriers are to be regulated as common carriers, but removes all other regulations, freeing telcos to offer VDT without FCC filings.
		However, the act dilutes the appeal of VDT by creating a video category called "open video systems." Operators of these systems can reserve up to one-third of their channel capacity for one programmer on systems with limited capacity.
		While the telecom reform act was being tossed around Congress, state regulatory agencies were busy opening their markets to competition - efforts that won't be forgotten.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0TPY/is_n7_v230/ai_18109864 (1491 words)

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		The Act was to have been a major achievement for the 105th Congress — the first significant overhaul of telecommunications law in 62 years.
		Key provisions of the Act were almost immediately challenged and overturned in court on Constitutional and other grounds.
		The damage done by these three elements of the Act has been extensive, particularly in terms of the healthy, competitive marketplace the Act was designed to create.
	www.usiia.org /pubs/telecom.doc (812 words)

	As Doc Searls \| mikel.org \| Michael Boyle's weblog
		In its own way, the Telecom Reform Act of 1996 was as important as the DCMA.
		Everyone focused on the Communications Decency Act back then, but that was clearly just a smoke screen from the beginning.
		The types of business combination that were finally allowed under the Telecom Reform Act are what has given rise to the large, monopolistic firms who are driving things currently in Hollywood.
	www.mikel.org /arch/2002/08/as_doc_searls.html (210 words)

	sciforums.com - We are heading to a serious telecom calamity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Well, the reason this is significant is because our latest economic boom is a direct result of telecom reform act of 94.
		The telecom industry is the key to turning the economy around.
		I'm in telecom as are many of my friends and its been a rough year.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=8956 (734 words)

	FCC - Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The official citation for the new Act is: Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub.
		The Report on FCC Implementation of Telecommunications Act of 1996 is a cumulative report of all actions taken since February 8, 1996, by the FCC to implement the Act.
		Chairman Hundt's Statement and related Report on the FCC Implementation of the Telecommunications Act presented to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance, Committee on Commerce of the U.S. House of Representatives on July 18, 1996.
	www.fcc.gov /telecom.html (3232 words)

	Chicago Telecom Reform Conference: Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Issues on the agenda include telecommunications taxes, universal service reform, municipally owned telecommunications systems, telecommunications reform and economic growth, and competition in telecommunications.
		Telecom reform is an urgent issue: Illinois and other states are planning to rewrite their telecommunications regulations during 2005 and 2006.
		December 2004--after the 2004 elections are over, but before the 2005 legislative sessions begin--is an excellent time for state and municipal officials to come together to discuss their options.
	www.heartland.org /Telecom04/telecom04.htm (232 words)

	President's Signing ceremony for the Telecommunications Act Conference Report
		And I thank the members of Congress in both parties, starting with the leadership, who believed in the promise and the possibility of telecommunications reform.
		I thank the vast array of interest groups who had sometimes conflicting concerns about this bill who were able to work together and work through them so that we could move this together.
		Speaker, I don't know what we can do about this in a bipartisan manner, I'm afraid that people would say that in the '50s that's the time when people in Washington were real leaders and pens were real pens.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/EOP/OP/telecom/release.html (1917 words)

	EFF "Legal Cases - EFF, ACLU, et al. v. Dept. of Justice (ACLU v. Reno)" Archive
		Judge Buckwalter's decision granting a TRO enjoining enforcement of the "indecency" (but not anti-abortion-info or "patent offensiveness") censorship restriction in the Telecom bill, until a 3-judge panel has time to review plaintiffs request for a long term preliminary injunction against all of these provisions.
		Decency section of the '96 Telecom Reform Act, on constitutionality grounds.
		EFF press release regarding the important lawsuit filed Feb. 8, 1996 challenging the constitutionality of the 1996 Telecom Bill's "Communications Decency" amendment, and seeking an injunction against enforcement of this terrible new law until the case as a whole is decided.
	www.umsl.edu /~muns/blueribbon/16.htm (678 words)

	SBC challenges constitutionality of telecommunications act
		SBC said the 1996 landmark reform 'improperly discriminates against SBC and the remaining five Bell Operating Companies by imposing restrictions' that prohibit the them from competing for long-distance and other services that other local carriers are free to provide.
		But under the 1996 telecom reform act, local carriers that have opened their service areas to competition also may offer long-distance service.
		SBC is not challenging those portions of the act which require all local exchange companies, including SBC, to open their local networks to competition,' Dreyer said.
	www.networkworld.com /news/1997/1208rboc2.html (558 words)

	Health Insurance Coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		February 8 - The Telecom Reform Act is signed into law by United States health income insurance low President Bill Clinton.
		For most of the last three hundred years there is inconsistency and duplication between the year california health individual insurance in topic paragraph, the "see also" box and what is on the year by topic pages.
		Debates on the Reform act had highlighted the variations in types of town government and a Royal Commission was set up to investigate.
	health-insurance.hostrim.com /health-insurance-coverage.html (933 words)

	Globalization spectrum reform and universal service are some of the critical issues facing the telecom industry says ...
		Globalization spectrum reform and universal service are some of the critical issues facing the telecom industry says infotech attorney Richard Wiley
		The next step will be a gradual elimination of the [existing] accounting and settlements process, [which divides equally the revenues from calls between the two nations].
		That's where the act is clear [and where] Congress sets the tone.
	www.washingtontechnology.com /news/11_4/news/9607-1.html (577 words)

	Senate considers revising Telecom Reform Act
		Now, the Net is such serious competition for the telecom industry that many legislators favor at least “tinkering with” the 1996 act, said Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), speaking at today’s Washington conference sponsored by the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee.
		Burns said he thinks the act needs rewriting after only nine years because technology is moving so much faster than in the past—it was three decades before the 1934 telecom law was rewritten.
		Stevens, whose committee will undertake the reform work, said he is “not exactly sure whether we should rewrite or amend the 1996 act.” He said he does believe “all communications technologies—wireline or wireless—should be treated equally.
	www.gcn.com /vol1_no1/daily-updates/35047-1.html (556 words)

	Stolberg Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Before passage of the Telecom Reform Act, the telecommunciations industry consisted of a few large long distance carriers, primarily ATandT, MCI and Sprint, and the Baby Bells that monopolized local phone service.
		The original intent of the Reform Act was to foster competition by encouraging cable companies to invade the Baby Bells' markets to offer local phone service.
		The Reform Act encouraged competition by offering incumbent local exchange carriers, like Qwest, the opportunity to get into the very profitable long-distance business, from which the incumbents had been barred since the breakup of ATandT.
	www.stolbergep.com /news_article7.html (3257 words)

	deseretnews.com \| House committee passes telecom bill
		Supporters said the bill represents deregulation progression from a 1995 telecom reform act.
		Telecom legislation over the years often has been contentious.
		Bramble, Fenn and a few lawmakers remarked on the rarity of the bill in that it garnered support from Qwest, the PSC, the consumer committee and the labor union.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600110412,00.html (473 words)

	The Blame America First Onslaught (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This originally started in response to concerns noted in the evil liberal media about the limited success of the 1996 Telecommunication Reform Act - by unscrupulous types who have been known to be under patriotic in their defense of the american way of life.
		This is all just more of the same old liberal 'blame america first' anti-biznizz, anti-americanism, anti-patriotism that has been making the rounds as each media pundit now tries to cover their tracks on what they said and what they did.....
		act to protect americans from the Corrupting Influence of the greedy unwashed masses with their unsavory tactics.
	www.wetware.com /drieux/PPandE/TWAT/RecoveryNow.html (1400 words)

	InternetWeek \| The Business and Technology of the Internet \| http://internetweek.cmp.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Local competition, access reform, Universal Service, carrier price caps and service bundling are just a few of the items at the top of the telecommunications agenda that the FCC faces in the coming months.
		Still, the limited competition that does exist in her home state of New Mexico is the result of the Telecom Act, she said.
		Tristani said she still is studying the details of Bell company long-distance entry, local competition and other telecommunications issues and hopes to begin making decisions in two or three months on some of the issues.
	www.internetweek.com /telepath/16new1.htm (1145 words)

	Telecom Reform Act Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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	Will small ops get squeezed? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The passage of the Telecom Reform Act has dramatically changed the structure of the communications industry.
		The Telecommunications Act has not had a big effect on me because we were already headed down the paths we're on.
		With the passage of the Telecom Bill, the bigger companies are going to try to get out of having to provide service to small communities.
	www.cedmagazine.com /ced/9606/9606c.htm (3109 words)

	Roaming charges: 'Hello, Auntie Oedipus?' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Elementary physics teaches that vectors are forces that act in a direction and have a magnitude, and that these forces together, acting on an object, will determine how that object will move.
		Economic forces act in the same manner, except the object that moves is some money-centric metric.
		Otherwise, the spirit and intent of the 1996 Telecom Reform Act (see Resources) is all but dead.
	www-128.ibm.com /developerworks/library/wi-roam32.html (1963 words)

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