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.

Countries

Where this binds. Each links to the providers apis.io has catalogued there.

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.