US Communications Act
Statute
United States
· 1934
The Communications Act of 1934, as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, is the statutory basis for US telecommunications regulation and the Federal Communications Commission's authority. It governs spectrum licensing, carrier obligations, interconnection, universal service and customer proprietary network information (CPNI) — and requires no carrier to expose a network API to anybody.
Sectoral regime. It binds the industries below; companies outside them
generally fall outside it.
Regions
Industries
Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.