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Telecommunications Act of 1996
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Telecommunications Act of 1996
Legislation in the United States that deregulated telecommunications. It changed regulations for telephones, television broadcasts and cable in order to reduce barriers to entry and increase competition. It also regulated explicit material broadcast on television. See also: Communications Decency Act.
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g) The Telecom Act of 1996 will essentially become impotent, along with any real chance for non-Bell competitors to survive in Bell markets.
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Of special note is Goldstein's analysis revealing that the dysfunctional elements that would lead to the boom-bust cycle crash of the telecommunications industry began long before the Telecom Act of 1996 (itself a belated, overly compromised reaction to an obsolete regulatory model).
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