Brent was prosecuted under the Telecommunications Act, relating to the sending of an electronic message.
It dates back to 1996, as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
It seems like a century, but just 16 years have passed since President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
And this just passed - it's probably the largest telecommunications legislation in a decade, since 1996 in the Telecommunications Act.
The decisions are part of a broad trend of media deregulation running through the courts and federal agencies since Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
That's the defense of Clear Channel and other acquisitive radio chains since they were unleashed by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which greatly relaxed national ownership restrictions.
This is why Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and its why after 14 years the FCC desperately needs to bring the hammer down this time.
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For anyone who'd cursed out their cable company, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 promised salvation by allowing competitors to "overbuild" on top of entrenched local cable companies.
Cyberspace protesters will change the background color of their Web sites to black with white or gray text after President Clinton signs the Telecommunications Act into law today.
This is going to be something that plays out, as Congress begins re-writing the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which is one of the reasons why we're starting to hear about this now.
One would think the FCC had been chastened enough by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, when, to spur competition, Washington forced traditional phone companies to lease their lines at below-market rates to newcomers.
Now we hate all the feet dragging by cable operators in the US as much as the next, and wish the FCC would enforce the Telecommunications Act of 1996 already, but that doesn't mean that everything big cable does is evil, or that the FCC is useless.
Though the stock is off 18% from its 52-week high, shares have more than tripled since the beginning of 1996, when Clear Channel's cofounder L. Lowry Mays took advantage of the Telecommunications Act to gobble up a succession of competitors that included AMFM, Jacor, SFX Entertainment and 26% of Hispanic Broadcasting.
Buried in the 1996 Telecommunications Act is a provision -- put in at the behest of Vice President Gore -- that the Federal Communications Commission has interpreted as giving it the right to impose a special tax on long- distance telephone customers.
Buried in the 1996 Telecommunications Act is a provision -- put in at the behest of Vice President Gore -- that the Federal Communications Commission has interpreted as giving it the right to impose a special tax on long distance telephone customers.
Carpenter cites the 1996 Telecommunications Act as a model.
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Congress is threatening to rewrite the 1996 Telecommunications Act.
But so far, none of the Bells has met the market-opening conditions for their local franchises that were laid down in the 1996 telecommunications act as a condition for ending their exclusion.
Nobody likes consolidation because it reminds them, for example, of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, when a few major media companies like Viacom and Clear Channel suddenly had permission to buy up hundreds and hundreds of stations with a result that nobody is particularly happy with commercial radio right now.
The act, which specifies that telecommunications companies have to provide "services to elementary schools, secondary schools, and libraries for educational purposes at rates less than the amounts charged for similar services to other parties, " was strongly supported by President Clinton as a contribution towards getting schools connected to the Internet.
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Preventing roving wiretaps: The Patriot Act allows federal officials, pursuant to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court authority, to track the telecommunications of suspected terrorists, despite their efforts to defeat such monitoring by changing phones or service providers.
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The 1996 act was intended, in part, to create more competition in U.S. telecommunications.
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