A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize interstate toll service connection between small telephone companies without a certificate of public convenience and necessity.

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Introduced

15 January 1979

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Status

Referred to House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.

Summary

Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to exempt interstate trunk lines owned by a telephone company serving subscribers in a single State from the requirement that no carrier in communication shall undertake the construction of a new line or of an extension of any line unless there shall first have been obtained from the Federal Communications Commission a certificate that the present or future public convenience and necessity require or will require such construction.

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summary · EN · 15 January 1979
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Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/96th-congress/house-bill/669
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