Telecommunications company

“ Each Party shall administer its procedures for the allocation and use of scarce telecommunications resources, including frequencies, numbers and rights-of-way, in an objective, timely, transparent and non-discriminatory manner. ”

“ Subject to paragraphs 2 and 3, each Party shall ensure that a major supplier in its territory provides to suppliers of public telecommunications services of another Party in the Party’s territory physical co-location of equipment necessary for interconnection or access to unbundled network elements based on a generally available offer, on a timely basis, and on terms and conditions and at cost-oriented rates, that are reasonable and non-discriminatory. ”

“ For its universality, its versatility and its economy, our telecommunications network is unmatched by any in the world. I believe it would ill-serve the public interest if AT&T, GT&E or any other participant in the network were denied the opportunity and the challenge of bringing their financial resources, their tradition of universal service and importantly their in-place research capabilities to the rich new compunications field. ”

“ When PBX and voice switching and all the pieces of intellect necessary to run a telephone system can be run on commodity white box hardware at no cost, and bandwidth can be bought in bulk by buyers with deep enough pockets to buy as much backbone time as they want, the telecommunications operators of the world are in a terrible jam. ”

“ The telecoms operators feed into politics in a more reliable—year in, year out, week in, year out—way than any other bunch of people except pharmaceuticals in the world, and then the politics of the west, not just this place, but all the developed societies, the operators of telecommunications have generations of accrued gains to spend keeping themselves in incumbency. ”

“ Telephone system:
general assessment: inadequate; requires considerable expansion and modernization; teledensity of 15 main lines per 100 persons is low; mobile-cellular penetration is increasing and is currently about 50 telephones per 100 persons domestic: fixed-line telephony and a broad range of other telecom services are controlled by a state-owned telecommunications monopoly and growth has been stagnant; more competition exists in the mobile-cellular market with three providers in 2006 ”

“ As greater flexibility is offered consumers to tailor their services, a broader spectrum of the marketplace can be expected to
77 F.C.C.2d 384, 430 take advantage of information processing services. To the extent regulatory barriers to entry are removed and restrictions on services are lifted there is a corresponding potential for greater utilization of the telecommunications network through greater access to new and innovative service by a larger segment of the populace. ”

“ When making a spectrum allocation for commercial telecommunications services, each Party shall endeavour to rely on an open and transparent process that considers the public interest, including the promotion of competition. Each Party shall endeavour to rely generally on market- based approaches in assigning spectrum for terrestrial commercial telecommunications services. To this end, each Party shall have the authority to use mechanisms such as auctions, if appropriate, to assign spectrum for commercial use. ”

“ In this corridor, the English and information and communication technology skills of the youth give them a competitive edge in call centers and other business process outsourcing.
In 2001, in this hall, we hailed ICT as a key growth sector. So we built up telecommunications infrastructure and opened the market for Internet phone calls. Today international calls cost 6 cents a minute, down from 40 cents. From 2,000 BPO workers in 2001, we now have 200,000. ”

“ Under this scenario, the regulatory demarcation between basic and enhanced services becomes relatively clear-cut. An enhanced service is any offering over the telecommunications network which is more than a basic transmission service. In an enhanced service, for example, computer processing applications are used to act on the content, code, protocol, and other aspects of the subcriber's information. ”

“ Telecommunications industry.—The term `telecommunications industry' means communications businesses using regulated or unregulated facilities or services and includes broadcasting, telecommunications, cable, computer, data transmission, software, programming, advanced messaging, and electronics businesses.''. ”

“ Government itself, however, has been more active than at any other time in the past in developing telecommunications. Some of our more important projects are:
1. The Nationwide Telecommunications Expansion and Improvement Program, which is now more than 60 per cent complete. ”

“ In the inquiry, the Commission shall determine whether advanced telecommunications capability is being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion. If the Commission's determination is negative, it shall take immediate action to accelerate deployment of such capability by removing barriers to infrastructure investment and by promoting competition in the telecommunications market. ”

“ To promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services for American telecommunications consumers and encourage the rapid deployment of new telecommunications technologies. ”

“ After the withdrawal of the restriction against the companies erecting trunk wires it became evident that the development of the telephone services throughout the country would be facilitated by complete intercommunication and uniformity of systems, and that economies could be effected by concentration of management. The various companies therefore amalgamated as the National Telephone Company. ”

“ By the same token, AT&T and GTE will not be prevented from realizing any mass production economies that may presently exist. AT&T and GTE will presumably be active participants in a competitive technology market with a growing demand for telecommunications products, and any separated subsidiary would have the option of creating its own research and development facilities. ”

“ The term `industry-wide' means activities funded by or performed on behalf of local exchange carriers for use in providing wireline telephone exchange service whose combined total of deployed access lines in the United States constitutes at least 30 percent of all access lines deployed by telecommunications carriers in the United States as of the date of enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. ”

“ The common carrier offering of basic transmission services are communications services and regulated as such under traditional Title II concepts. Consistent with the determinations made in the First Computer Inquiry, we find that regulation of enhanced services is not required in furtherance of some overall statutory objective. In fact, the absence of traditional public utility regulation of enhanced services offers the greatest potential for efficient utilization and full exploitation of the interstate telecommunications network. ”

“ The projected growth of the telecommunications industry is 10.5 per cent a year. Our future program calls for an average yearly investment of $ 15,424,190. This annual additional investment will be provided mainly by the private sector. ”

“ Along with such rights, corresponding carrier responsibilities were established by making unlawful any unjust or unreasonable interference with these consumer rights by the carrier. Consumers have the right to use the telecommunications network "... in ways which are privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental." ”

“ These initiatives will help ensure that America maintains its technological leadership well into the 21st century.
The administration fought for telecommunications reform so that consumers would enjoy greater choice, faster deployment of broad-band networks, and lower prices. There are now providers of high-speed Internet access in 70 percent of the nation's zip codes.
The administration also made more spectrum available to the private sector for new digital wireless services. The number of wireless subscribers increased from 11 million in 1992 to 108 million today. ”

“ At present wireless telegraphy has not superseded the ordinary methods of communicating over land, but there can be no doubt that wireless telegraphy, if free from Government restrictions, would in certain circumstances very quickly supersede land-line telegraphy, while it has proved a formidable commercial competitor to the cable as a means of connecting this country with America. ”

“ Advanced services.—The Commission shall establish competitively neutral rules— `` (A) to enhance, to the extent technically feasible and economically reasonable, access to advanced telecommunications and information services for all public and nonprofit elementary and secondary school classrooms, health care providers, and libraries; and `` (B) to define the circumstances under which a telecommunications carrier may be required to connect its network to such public institutional telecommunications users. ”

“ The failure of government ownership of the telephone in so many foreign countries does not mean that the private companies will have absolute power. Quite the reverse. The lesson of thirty years' experience shows that a private telephone company is apt to be much more obedient to the will of the people than if it were a Government department. ”

“ A great corporation, nerved at every point with telephone wires, may now pay fifty thousand dollars to the Bell Company, while at the same time a young Irish immigrant boy, just arrived in New York City, may offer five coppers and find at his disposal a fifty million dollar telephone system. ”

“ The examples provided by AT&T generally fall into the latter category. If there truly are economies of scale, nothing in our separation requirements would preclude a non-related entity from providing services to both the underlying carrier and its separate subsidiary. If the unaffiliated entity can attract additional customers for the same service (e.g., payroll accounting and check preparation) , it may be able to offer greater economies than those available to the telephone company alone. ”

“ In essence, our efforts up until now have focused on increasing consumer choice and have resulted in non-discriminatory access to the tele-communications network for connection of non-carrier provided equipment. This has allowed consumers to exercise their rights in the selection and use of terminal equipment that best suits their needs. Moreover, it has opened up various segments of the equipment market to new entrants. ”

“ Every single AT&T long distance phone call goes through these switches and is labeled by an IAM with where the call came from and where it's going. What we're looking for is the high usage digital lines. Including fax lines. So the phone company is kind enough to send us a list of every call. We get about seven million an hour."
"We can handle that?"
"We have enough to handle ten times that."
"I forget about the international monitors. That's millions more calls a day we listen to."
"Yessir. The computers go through every call and make a list of digital calls. ”

“ We are, in other words, watching as the self‐assembled wireless net begins to cooperate thickly enough that even infrastructure builders may not have much work left to do. Combine that with ubiquitous SIP soft phones inside your PDAs, Internet tablets, laptops. Combine that with the reluctance of most people in the young generation to buy wire line telephone service anymore, and there’s a perfect storm being set up for the bandwidth merchants. ”

“ Section 1 of the Communications Act states its 'purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges'. ”

“ Even if base station code is secure and well-managed over time, the business model of the wireless infrastructure providers is such that personnel from the vendor are typically involved in the commissioning, operation, and maintenance of network infrastructure. This requires vendors to access core management systems that operate the network, and allows vendors to deploy software to equipment in the system. ”