In favor of public interest is the key phrase here
statutory requirement including the bureau docket number and the FCC number
(1) Commission Actions and (2) Facilitating Public Information.
• Transcript of Proceedings from the FCC Telemedical Advisory Committee meeting
Telecommunications and Health Care Advisory Committee
Act of 1934.
Scope and Content of the New Law
One common misperception is that the 1996 Act completely supplanted the foundational law of communications in the United States, the Communications
Act of 1934. Despite the new Act's length and breadth, most of 1934 Act remains in full force and effect. For example, there were essentially no changes to the 1934 Act's
"Title I" provisions, which established and still govern the operations of the FCC, and relatively few changes to those provisions of "Title III," which govern broadcasting. The Act did, however, make extensive revisions to the?
"Title II" provisions regarding common carriers and repealed the judicial 1982 AT&T consent decree (often referred to as the "modification of final judgment" or "MFJ") that effectuated the breakup of AT&T's Bell System.
(5) Furthermore, it made a host of other changes to existing law and adds new provisions regarding, among other things, broadcasting, cable television, and the Internet.
Unleashing Local Exchange Carriers into New Markets
The 1982 AT&T consent decree was the culmination of an anti-trust court action pursued by the U.S. Government against monopolistic practices of the Bell System.
The consent decree, agreed to by the Government and AT&T, required AT&T to spin-off its affiliated Bell operating companies, which were put under the ownership and control of seven regional holding companies.
However, because of concerns over the possibility of discriminatory practices or improper cross-subsidization between regulated and unregulated markets, the decree barred the Bell companies from certain lines of business, most notably long distance service.
discriminatory practices or improper cross-subsidization between regulated and unregulated markets most notably long distance service.
Long Distance.
(10) A Bell company may apply to the FCC for authorization to provide in-region long distance services if it has entered into an approved interconnection agreement and meets the requirements of a "competitive checklist" and other requirements in the Act.
The FCC may approve the authorization if the company meets these requirements and the authorization is in the public interest.
The company must provide such service through a separate affiliate for three years after enactment. The company may also, upon enactment, provide out-of-region and incidental long distance services, as well as already authorized long distance services.
Nevertheless, although Bell companies have requested that FCC authorization to provide long distance services originating within a state, the FCC has yet to find that any Bell company has met the requirements above.
Universal Service
The goal of universal service, that is, the availability of basic communications services to the public at just, reasonable, and affordable rates, has been a significant cornerstone of U.S. communications policy at the federal and state levels for over 50 years.(12) The Act makes this goal explicit for the first time in the national law and requires the federal government, through the FCC, to work with states to make changes to the definition (14)
Because universal service is an objective of the various state governments as well as the federal government, the Act directed the FCC to institute a Federal-State Joint Board to develop recommendations on defining and funding universal service, and enumerates several principles (such as nature of access, service quality, and affordable rates) to guide the deliberations. The Joint Board issued a wide-ranging "Recommended Decision" in late 1996, that the FCC in May, 1997 adopted in large part.
The FCC's action reflects new thinking on Universal Service in the United States. The new Universal Service includes support for high-cost areas, low income households, and for the first time, key institutions in education and health care that otherwise might not be able to meaningfully participate in the information age.
Of great importance to the Clinton Administration, the Act seeks to ensure that schools and libraries (and -- to a lesser extent -- rural health care facilities) become connected to the national information infrastructure (NII) through preferential rates for services as defined by the FCC. This program, popularly called the "E-Rate," is intended to provide basic communications as well as Internet connections to classrooms throughout the country. Upon request, all telecommunications carriers must provide discounted service to schools (kindergarten through twelfth grade), libraries, and rural and non-profit health care facilities, at preferential rates. The Act directs funding of this program to be by telecommunications providers. The FCC has capped funding at $2.25 billion.
https://www.ntia.doc.gov/legacy/opadhome/overview.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/01/business/slew-of-supreme-court-cases-to-focus-on-96-telecom-law.html
So we need to hit the long distance and fcc regulation for local town and city
and then we need to address the telecommunications medical community with this series of operation.
then the cyber terrorism from the facebook post and then the shit from facebooks regulations. 1&2
which is still world medical at this point because of the intercontinental long distance relationships.
and it was revised again with Bush. so now we
need Act of 1934 Bush and clinton
title v
covers this, but it still hits wma
and all medical imaging and whatever is to be documented which it is because we all fucking have it. so we'll need copies of those records and the originals of the data and those who are affiliated will be dealt with appropriately. in accordance with regulation and judicial codes of wma and international law. which we already discussed.
https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-statement-on-the-ethics-of-telemedicine/
https://transition.fcc.gov/Reports/tcom1996.pdf
BULLION ONLY
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