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- Title: Virginia Cellular and Highland Cellular: The FCC Establishes a Framework for Eligible Telecommunications Carrier Designation in Rural Study Areas.
- Author : Federal Communications Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 369 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION In 1996, Congress passed the first substantial rework of the Communications Act of 1934. (1) This Act was intended to benefit consumers by encouraging competition and establishing a series of explicit mechanisms for assuring universal service. As with any complex legislation--particularly a federal body of legislation that took five years to pass--there have been unforeseeable and unintended consequences. Accelerating technological changes have also added unexpected outcomes. One of these outcomes is the creation of significant controversy over the federal, and in some cases, state universal service subsidy for the class of telecommunications providers typically known as wireless or cellular and defined by federal statute as "commercial mobile radio service" ("CMRS"). (2) Incumbent local exchange carriers ("ILECs")--traditional local telephone companies using much more costly landline telephone systems--characterize these subsidies as a windfall and as unnecessary to provide wireless phone service. They argue that federal and state universal service funding is intended to subsidize high-cost local telephone service--not wireless service--which is substandard compared to landline service. CMRS providers assert that the federal Act was designed to create competition and that their services provide consumers alternatives, create competition, and provide a quality and convenient service with mobile advantages not offered by landlines.
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