Telecom+Act

​Austin Robida

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 changed the way we learned, lived and worked. It affected telephone service, tv programming services, and services provided to schools. The goal of this new law was to let anyone enter any communications business, and let any communications business compete in any market against any other.[] The 1996 Act sought to foster competition among companies that use similar underlying network technologies.

Author- Larry Pressler

Signed by President Clinton on February 8, 1996.

It was the first bill signed into cyberspace and the first bill signed at the library of congress.

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