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Cable and Satellite Television Network Tiering and a la Carte Options for Consumers: Issues for Congress
Date: June 9, 2004
Creator: Goldfarb, Charles B
Description: The large cable programmers, who provide most of the popular cable (and broadcast) television programming, respond that a single large expanded basic service tier represents the most efficient way to offer programming and that allowing customers to obtain networks on an a la carte basis or in small tiers would raise costs – and hence prices to consumers – and also reduce the diversity of programs offered, so that consumer welfare would suffer in the long run. In this report, the pros and cons of offering subscribers only a single large expanded basic service tier and also of the various proposals to provide consumers more options are presented.
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A Glossary of Selected Telecommunications Terms
Date: January 1, 1984
Creator: Bortnick, Jane
Description: The following glossary provides short definitions and descriptions of selected telecommunications terminology, agencies, and organizations, as well as a listing of key laws and Federal Communications Commission regulations and decisions.
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Bundling Residential Telephone, Internet, and Video Services: Issues for Congress
Date: February 17, 2004
Creator: Goldfarb, Charles B
Description: This report discusses bundling and public policy issues for Congress. The federal Universal Service Fund - the federal subsidy program that assures affordable telephone rates for high-cost (rural) and low-income telephone customers as well as for schools, libraries, and rural health facilities - is supported by an assessment on interstate telecommunications revenues only. But it is difficult to identify the portion of revenues generated by a bundled service offering attributable to the interstate telecommunications portion of that bundle.
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Net Neutrality: Background and Issues
Date: May 16, 2006
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A
Description: None
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The Telecommunications Act of 1982 (H.R. 5158, 97th Congress): Provisions and Controversies
Date: May 21, 1982
Creator: Gilroy, Angele A
Description: None
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Third Generation ("3G") Mobile Wireless Technologies and Services
Date: January 17, 2001
Creator: Nunno, Richard M
Description: None
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Seafarer: Extremely Low Frequency Naval Communications System
Date: June 20, 1978
Creator: Gannon, Edmund J
Description: None
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Telephone Industry Issues
Date: January 1, 1987
Creator: Congressional Reference Division
Description: None
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Net Neutrality: Background and Issues
Date: September 16, 2008
Creator: Gilroy, Angele E.
Description: None
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Public Safety Communications Policy
Date: July 24, 2006
Creator: Moore, Linda K.
Description: Since September 11, 2001, the effectiveness of America's communications capabilities in support of the information needs of first responders and other public safety workers has been a matter of concern to Congress. Most public safety advocates consider that the communications failures following the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina demonstrate that there is much still to be done to provide the United States with adequate communications capabilities in emergencies. This report explores several pieces of legislation aimed at improving the emergency management the emergency communications infrastructure.
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