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1996 TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM ACT Telecom Act? More Like Lawyers' Full-Employment Law.(A)(Internet & Technology)
Byline: Reinhardt Krause
Investor's Business Daily
Five years after Congress passed telecom reform to give consumers more choices,most people still buy their local service from the same company they always have.
If telecom reform has moved at snail's pace, legal wrangling is surely one reason. Since the Telecommunications Act was enacted in February 1996, plenty of phone cases have been mired in federal courts.
"If I could rewrite the law, in hindsight I would have e
liminated everything that courts thought was a loophole," said Reed Hundt, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. "Courts have picked on tiny word choices by Congress and used them as excuses for intervening in telecom policy."
Industry lobbyists fought over the telecom act's wording for a decade before the act was signed into law.
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