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66 relations: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, A People's History of the United States, Access network, AT&T Corporation, Barriers to entry, Bill Clinton, Border blaster, Brinkley Act, Broadcast license, Broadcasting, Brookings Institution, Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, Cable television, Circuit switching, Communications Act of 1934, Communications Decency Act, Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Bill of 2006, Competitive local exchange carrier, Consent decree, Consumers Union, Corporate welfare, Cyberspace, Digital television, E-Rate, Ex-ante, Externality, Federal Communications Commission, First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Good Samaritan law, Howard Zinn, Incumbent local exchange carrier, Internet, Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006, Jargon, Larry Pressler, Library of Congress, List of Latin phrases (E), Local exchange carrier, MCI Communications, Media cross-ownership in the United States, Metropolitan Fiber Systems, Network effect, Open access (infrastructure), Orwell Rolls in His Grave, Oxford University Press, Radio homogenization, Ralph Nader, Regional Bell Operating Company, Republican Party (United States), Rio Grande, ..., Robert Crandall, South Dakota, Supreme Court of the United States, Telecommunication, Telecommunications Bill of 2005, Teleport Communications Group, Title 47 of the United States Code, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, United States Government Publishing Office, United States Senate, United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc., Universal service, Universal Service Fund, V-chip, 104th United States Congress. Expand index (16 more) »
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
"A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" is a widely distributed early paper on the applicability (or lack thereof) of government on the rapidly growing Internet.
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A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States is a 1980 non-fiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn.
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Access network
An access network is a type of telecommunications network which connects subscribers to their immediate service provider.
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AT&T Corporation
AT&T Corp., originally the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is the subsidiary of AT&T that provides voice, video, data, and Internet telecommunications and professional services to businesses, consumers, and government agencies.
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Barriers to entry
In theories of competition in economics, a barrier to entry, or an economic barrier to entry, is a cost that must be incurred by a new entrant into a market that incumbents do not have or have not had to incur.
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Bill Clinton
William Jefferson Clinton (born August 19, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.
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Border blaster
A border blaster is a broadcast station that, though not licensed as an external service, is, in practice, used to target another country.
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Brinkley Act
The Brinkley Act is the popular name given to (originally section 325(b) of the Communications Act of 1934).
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Broadcast license
A broadcast license is a type of spectrum license granting the licensee permission to use a portion of the radio frequency spectrum in a given geographical area for broadcasting purposes.
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Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.
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Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution is a century-old American research group on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C. It conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development.
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Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984
The Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 (codified at) was an act of Congress passed on October 30, 1984 to promote competition and deregulate the cable television industry.
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Cable television
Cable television is a system of delivering television programming to paying subscribers via radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted through coaxial cables, or in more recent systems, light pulses through fiber-optic cables.
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Circuit switching
Circuit switching is a method of implementing a telecommunications network in which two network nodes establish a dedicated communications channel (circuit) through the network before the nodes may communicate.
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Communications Act of 1934
The Communications Act of 1934 is a United States federal law, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 19, 1934, and codified as Chapter 5 of Title 47 of the United States Code, et seq.
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Communications Decency Act
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was the first notable attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet.
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Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Bill of 2006
The Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006 was a bill in the US House of Representatives.
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Competitive local exchange carrier
A competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), in the United States and Canada, is a telecommunications provider company (sometimes called a "carrier") competing with other, already established carriers (generally the incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC)).
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Consent decree
A consent decree is an agreement or settlement that resolves a dispute between two parties without admission of guilt (in a criminal case) or liability (in a civil case), and most often refers to such a type of settlement in the United States.
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Consumers Union
Consumers Union (CU) is a United States-based non-profit organization focusing on product testing, investigative journalism, and consumer advocacy.
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Corporate welfare
Corporate welfare is a term that analogizes corporate subsidies to welfare payments for the poor.
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Cyberspace
Cyberspace is interconnected technology.
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Digital television
Digital television (DTV) is the transmission of television signals, including the sound channel, using digital encoding, in contrast to the earlier television technology, analog television, in which the video and audio are carried by analog signals.
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E-Rate
E-Rate is the commonly used name for the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, which is administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) under the direction of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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Ex-ante
The term ex-ante (sometimes written ex ante or exante) is a phrase meaning "before the event".
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Externality
In economics, an externality is the cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.
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First Amendment to the United States Constitution
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or to petition for a governmental redress of grievances.
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Good Samaritan law
Good Samaritan laws offer legal protection to people who give reasonable assistance to those who are, or who they believe to be, injured, ill, in peril, or otherwise incapacitated.
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Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, and social activist.
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Incumbent local exchange carrier
An incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) is a local telephone company which held the regional monopoly on landline service before the market was opened to competitive local exchange carriers, or the corporate successor of such a firm.
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Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
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Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006
The Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006 is a bill in the United States House of Representatives.
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Jargon
Jargon is a type of language that is used in a particular context and may not be well understood outside that context.
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Larry Pressler
Larry Lee Pressler (born March 29, 1942) is a Republican U.S. politician from South Dakota.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.
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List of Latin phrases (E)
Additional sources.
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Local exchange carrier
Local exchange carrier (LEC) is a regulatory term in telecommunications for the local telephone company. In the United States, wireline telephone companies are divided into two large categories: long distance (interexchange carrier, or IXCs) and local (local exchange carrier, or LECs).
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MCI Communications
MCI Communications Corp. was an American telecommunications company that was instrumental in legal and regulatory changes that led to the breakup of the AT&T monopoly of American telephony and ushered in the competitive long-distance telephone industry.
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Media cross-ownership in the United States
Media cross-ownership is the ownership of multiple media businesses by a person or corporation.
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Metropolitan Fiber Systems
Metropolitan Fiber Systems Inc, later known as MFS Communications Company, was a last mile provider of business grade telecommunication products such as long distance, and Internet access through its own fiber rings in major central business districts throughout North America and Europe.
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Network effect
A network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale) is the positive effect described in economics and business that an additional user of a good or service has on the value of that product to others.
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Open access (infrastructure)
In the context of infrastructure, open access involves physical infrastructure such as railways and physical telecommunications network plant being made available to clients other than the owners, for a fee.
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Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Orwell Rolls in His Grave is a 2003 American documentary film directed by Robert Kane Pappas and written by Pappas and Tom Blackburn.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Radio homogenization
Radio homogenization is a trend towards similar programming within broadcast radio in the United States.
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Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader (born February 27, 1934) is an American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney, noted for his involvement in consumer protection, environmentalism and government reform causes.
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Regional Bell Operating Company
The Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOC) are the result of United States v. AT&T, the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust suit against the former American Telephone & Telegraph Company (later known as AT&T Corp.). On January 8, 1982, AT&T Corp.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
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Rio Grande
The Rio Grande (or; Río Bravo del Norte, or simply Río Bravo) is one of the principal rivers in the southwest United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Colorado River).
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Robert Crandall
Robert Lloyd "Bob" Crandall (born December 6, 1935 in Westerly, Rhode Island) is an American businessman who is the former president and chairman of American Airlines.
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South Dakota
South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of signs, signals, messages, words, writings, images and sounds or information of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems.
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Telecommunications Bill of 2005
The Telecommunications Act of 2005 (tentatively named) is a proposed United States telecommunications law that makes regulatory changes to broadband Internet providers, Voice over IP providers, and Broadband Video services.
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Teleport Communications Group
Teleport Communications Group (TCG) was the first competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) in the United States.
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Title 47 of the United States Code
Title 47 of the United States Code defines the role and structure of the Federal Communications Commission, an independent agency of the United States government, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, part of the United States Department of Commerce.
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.
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United States Government Publishing Office
The United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) (formerly the Government Printing Office) is an agency of the legislative branch of the United States federal government.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.
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United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
The United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is a standing committee of the United States Senate.
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United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc.
United States v. Playboy Entertainment Group, 529 U.S. 803 (2000),.
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Universal service
Universal service is an economic, legal and business term used mostly in regulated industries, referring to the practice of providing a baseline level of services to every resident of a country.
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Universal Service Fund
The Universal Service Fund (USF) is a system of telecommunications subsidies and fees managed by the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) intended to promote universal access to telecommunications services in the United States.
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V-chip
V-chip is a generic term for technology used in television set receivers in Canada, Brazil and the United States, which allows the blocking of programs based on their ratings category.
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104th United States Congress
The One Hundred Fourth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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1996 Telecom Act, 1996 Telecommunications Act, TA 96, Telecom Act of 1996, Telecom Reform Act, Telecommunications act of 1996, United States Telecommunications Act of 1996.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
