It brought some of the activities of the security services that had hitherto been conducted under the dubious auspices of the 1984 Telecommunications Act under explicit statutory control.
Reclassifying broadband as a telecommunications service under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 could have all manner of unintended consequences.
The value of those supervoting shares boomed as TeleCommunications expanded under its chairman, John Malone.
The FCC is also considering reclassifying internet service as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act.
He was convicted of sending a "menacing message" over a public telecommunications network under the Communications Act of 2003.
Governments, now meeting in Dubai, will update a global telecommunications treaty under the auspices of a U.N. agency, the International Telecommunication Union, or I.T.U.
He had been added to the government's central terror watchlist in January and his telecommunications were under surveillance until September.
That bill did not pass but the Communications Act of 1934 has long granted the President power to shut down telecommunications networks under the threat of war.
TRIPOLI, Libya — Borrowing a page from Saddam Hussein's old playbook, officials tied to the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi on Monday threatened to post "human shields" at telecommunications sites under threat of NATO bombing.
In March, 3Com and Huawei formed a joint venture to develop and sell telecommunications products under the 3Com brand in all markets outside of Japan and China, while selling products in those two countries under the 3Com-Huawei brand.
More fundamentally, there are concerns that Mr. Thaksin, who grew rich as a telecommunications baron under the old system of patronage politics, will begin to undercut the democratic reforms that have taken tentative root under Mr. Chuan's three-year administration.
