Number: RL33034
Title: Telecommunications Act: Competition, Innovation, and Reform
Authors: Charles B. Goldfarb, Resources, Science, and Industry Division 
Abstract: Both houses of Congress have begun debating how to modify the 1996 Act, most of which resides within the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. That debate focuses on how to foster investment, innovation and competition in both the physical broadband network and in the applications that ride over that network while also meeting the many non-economic objectives of U.S. telecommunications policy: universal service, homeland security, public safety, diversity of voices, localism, consumer protection, etc.
Pages: 82
Date: June 7, 2007