In 2002, the FCC decided to no longer require A and B carriers to support AMPS service as of February 18, 2008.

The service began operating in Palm Springs, California on November 27, 1953, but due to pressure from the FCC, the service ended on May 15, 1954.

Pursuant to recent FCC decisions, Internet DSL and Internet Cable services are now considered combined as one " information service.

In the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) proceeding the Second Computer Inquiry, the FCC ruled that telecommunications carriers could no longer bundle CPE with telecommunications service, uncoupling the market power of the telecommunications service monopoly from the CPE market, and creating a competitive CPE market.

Early DSL service required a dedicated dry loop, but when the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) required ILECs to lease their lines to competing DSL service providers, shared-line DSL became available.

** Telecommunications Service Priority ( TSP )-provides service vendors with a Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) mandate for prioritizing service requests by identifying those services critical to NS / EP.

In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) regulates phone-to-phone connections, but says they do not plan to regulate connections between a phone user and an IP telephony service provider. Using the Internet, calls travel as packets of data on shared lines, avoiding the tolls of the PSTN.

Despite the name's similarity to the FRS allocation, the system is a proprietary design, rather than an official U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) allocated service.

The Citizens ' Band radio service originated in the United States as one of several personal radio services regulated by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ).

Initially, the FCC intended for CB to be the " poor man's business-band radio ", and CB regulations were structured similarly to those regulating the business band radio service.

Accuracy rates must meet FCC standards on average within any given participating PSAP service area by September 11, 2012 ( deferred from September 11, 2008 ).

Initially, the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) took a hands off approach to VoIP in order to let the service mature and also to facilitate competition in the telephony market.

When FCC Chair Kevin Martin replaced FCC Chair Michael Powell, he immediately changed FCC's hand's off policy and moved to impose 911 obligations on VoIP service providers.

In 2005, Chair Martin moved FCC to require " interconnected VoIP services " to begin to provide 911 service and provide notice to their consumers concerning the 911 limitations.

The FCC announced that customers must respond to the E911 VoIP warning and those who do not have their service cut off on August 30, 2005.

Many of these solutions have been established according to FCC, CRTC, and NENA i2 standards, in order to help enterprises and service providers reduce liability concerns and meet E911 regulations.

In the United States, the FCC requires networks to route every mobile-phone and payphone 911 call to an emergency service call center, including phones that have never had service, or whose service has lapsed.

In the United States of America, uses of the ISM bands are governed by Part 18 of the FCC rules, while Part 15 contains the rules for unlicensed communication devices, even those that use the ISM frequencies.

This Act gave the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) power to enact rules on the implementation of Closed Captioning.

Fox's original reason for the reduced number of prime time hours was to avoid fulfilling the FCC's requirements at the time to be considered a network, and to be free of resulting regulations, though FCC rules have been relaxed since then.

Since the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) amended rules to allow frequency hopping spread spectrum systems in the unregulated 2. 4 GHz band, many consumer devices in that band have employed various spread-spectrum modes.

Later that same year ( 1996 ) the US Federal Communication Commission ( FCC ) issued rules requiring all US mobile operators to locate emergency callers.

Because of these effects, the FCC designed the Communications Act 1996 “ to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition ..." The Telecommunication Act of 1996 also added and changed some rules to account for the emerging internet.

They do not use FCC-issued callsigns, as other radio stations on US soil are required by FCC rules to do.

Hamilton County Communications ( a wholly controlled subsidiary of the Hamilton County Telephone Cooperative ) purchased the cable-operating rights from Longview in 2006 although it is unclear whether they will be able to operate a cable system under current FCC rules.

Selective TV operates under low power television rules of the FCC and as such was not subject to the analog to digital conversion in 2009.

More than four dozen devices have been certified under the FCC UWB rules, the vast majority of which are radar, imaging or locating systems.

The subject was extensively covered in the proceedings that led to the adoption of the FCC rules in the U. S. and in the meetings relating to UWB of the ITU-R leading to its Report and Recommendations on UWB technology.

AM radio transmitters can transmit audio frequencies up to 15 kHz ( now limited to 10 kHz in the US due to FCC rules designed to reduce interference ), but most receivers are only capable of reproducing frequencies up to 5 kHz or less.

As noted above, rules implemented by the FCC on July 12, 2007 provisionally endorse incorporating CAP with the SAME protocol.

Much like its competitor UPN, the WB Television Network was a reaction primarily to new FCC deregulation of media ownership rules that repealed fin-syn, and partly to the success of the upstart Fox and first-run syndicated programming during the late 1980s and early 1990s such as Baywatch, Star Trek: The Next Generation and War of the Worlds, as well as the erosion in ratings suffered by independent television stations due to the growth of cable television and movie rentals.

The United States Congress passed a bill on September 30, 2010, called the CALM Act, to reduce the sound volume of advertisements, and loudness rules set by the FCC are effective as of December 13, 2012.

At the time of its broadcast, the FCC took no action against the network for violating indecency rules because doing so would have a negative connotation and would be interpreted as sanitizing history.

Another FCC ruling that would affect the company was the 26 June 1968 ruling in the Carterfone case that deemed AT & T's rules prohibiting private two-way radio connections to a telephone network were illegal.

Shock jocks also tend to push the envelope of decency in their market, and may appear to show a lack of regard for communications regulations ( e. g. FCC rules in the U. S .) regarding content.

The new law has stripped down the television ownership rules so much, that: big media players will can be more aggressive in buying out smaller stations ... A new: legislative fight is brewing on the horizon as the broadcast industry gears up for: the introduction of digital television ... The Telecommunications Act ... highlights include: Deregulation of most cable TV rates by 1999 ... End the FCC partial ban on broadcast networks owning cable systems ... Extends TV and radio station license terms to eight years ... Eases one-to-a-market rule to allow ownership of TV and radio combos ... in the top 50 markets.

Although there are FCC rules against interference they routinely ignore them.

In 1987 the FCC changed its rules to prohibit applications for new " class-D " stations.

In the United States, the modern demarcation point is a device defined by FCC rules ( 47 C. F. R.

In order to create an actionable complaint pursuant to FCC rules, an individual with a home phone or a personal cell phone is required to specify details of the infraction to the FCC.

In 1954, when Capp was applying for a Boston television license, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) received an anonymous packet of pornographic Li ' l Abner drawings.

Herald-Traveler Corp. operated for years under temporary authority from the Federal Communications Commission stemming from controversy over luncheon meetings the newspaper's chief executive had with an FCC commissioner during the original licensing process ( Some Boston broadcast historians accuse the Boston Globe of being covertly behind the proceeding.

RCA began to lobby for a change in the law or FCC regulations that would prevent FM radios from becoming dominant.

By June 1945, the RCA had pushed the FCC hard on the allocation of electromagnetic frequencies for the fledgling television industry.

Though Jive Records did not push the album it gained infamy when radio station WSUC-FM ( 90. 5 ) of Cortland, NY was fined $ 23, 700 by the FCC for playing the song Yo Da-Lin In the Valley then the largest fine against a radio station.

Additionally, in the book The Mason Williams FCC Rapport, author Mason Williams states that he pitched an idea to CBS for a television program that featured " video-radio ," where disc jockeys would play avant-garde art pieces set to music on the air.

Paramount management planned to acquire additional owned-and-operated stations (" O & Os "); the company applied to the FCC for additional stations in San Francisco, Detroit, and Boston.

This frequency band was designated by the United States FCC and Industry Canada to be used for new wireless services to alleviate capacity caps inherent in the original AMPS and D-AMPS cellular networks in the 800-894 MHz frequency band ( commonly referred to as the " 850 MHz band ").

QRP enthusiasts contend that this is not always necessary, and doing so wastes power, increases the likelihood of causing interference to nearby televisions, radios, and telephones and, for United States ' amateurs is incompatible with FCC Part 97 rule, which states that one must use " the minimum power necessary to carry out the desired communications.

The repeal of the Fairness Doctrine — which had required that stations provide free air time for responses to any controversial opinions that were broadcast — by the FCC in 1987 meant stations could broadcast editorial commentary without having to present opposing views.

The requirement for Amateur Radio operators in the United States to identify their station callsign at the beginning and the end of each digital transmission and at ten minute intervals using International Morse Code was finally lifted by the FCC on June 15, 1983.

The names for these monochrome standards are letters, such as M, B / G, D / K, and L. See CCIR, OIRT and FCC ( the standardization bodies ).

In the case of modern television receivers, no other technique was able to produce the precise bandpass characteristic needed for vestigial sideband reception, similar to that used in the NTSC system approved by the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) in 1953, and the PAL system approved by the BBC in 1957.

Many complaints ( all radio stations are required by the FCC to maintain, in their public files, copies of all correspondence from the public relating to station operations – for a period of three years from receipt ) have been received from fans of this musical genre ( Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, big band music ," etc.

60 speed became the de facto standard for amateur radio RTTY operation because of the widespread availability of equipment at that speed and the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) restrictions to only 60 speed from 1953 to 1972.

Also, some UPN stations aired a block of cartoon programming from DIC Entertainment ( such as Trollz and Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century ) which was designed to meet the minimal three hours of E / I programming required by the FCC, and usually airs either six days a week for a half-hour each day, or in three hour-long blocks throughout the week.

Because nearly all affiliates found production costs for the FCC's intended goal of increased public affairs programming very high and the ratings ( thus advertising revenues ) low, making it mostly unprofitable, the FCC created an exception for network-authored news and public affairs.

It was only when the FCC returned an hour to the networks on Sundays ( for children's / family or news programming ), taken away from them four years earlier, in a 1975 amendment to the Access Rule that CBS finally found a viable permanent timeslot for 60 Minutes.

The flood of publicity after the broadcast had two effects: an FCC ban on faux news bulletins within dramatic programming, and sponsorship for The Mercury Theatre on the Air — the former sustaining program became The Campbell Playhouse to sell soup.

In the United States, primary frequency assignment authority is exercised by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration ( NTIA ) for the Federal Government and by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) for non-Federal Government organizations.

Tariff FCC No. 4. that precipitated the breakup of the original AT & T into the " Baby Bells " or created since that time for wireline regulation.