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== Overview == A comprehensive statutory framework for U.S. communications policy, covering [[telecommunication]]s and [[broadcasting]] was first created in the Communications Act of 1934 ("1934 Act").<ref>47 U.S.C. Β§151 ''et seq.'' The Act has been amended numerous times, most significantly in recent years by the [[Telecommunications Act of 1996]]. The Act created the [[Federal Communications Commission]] ("[[FCC]]" or "Commission") as an independent federal agency.</ref> {{Quote|for the purpose of regulating [[interstate commerce|interstate]] and [[foreign commerce]] in communication by [[wire]] and [[radio]] so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United Stakes a rapid, efficient, nationwide and worldwide [[wire communication|wire]] and [[radio communications]] service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges.}} The [[FCC]] was tasked with [[implement]]ing and administering the economic [[regulation]] of the [[interstate]] activities of the telephone [[monopolies]] and the [[licensing]] of [[spectrum]] used for [[broadcast]] and other purposes. It explicitly left most [[regulation]] of [[intrastate]] [[telephone service]]s to the states. In the 1970s and 1980s, a combination of [[technological]] change, court decisions, and changes in U.S. [[policy]] permitted competitive entry into some [[telecommunication]]s and [[broadcast]] markets. In 1996, [[U.S. Congress|Congress]] passed the [[Telecommunications Act of 1996]] ("1996 Act"), which significantly amended the 1934 Act and opened up markets to competition by removing unnecessary regulatory [[barriers to entry]].
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