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...local phone companies that want to lease parts of the Bell network so they can offer their own service. A 1996 telecommunications law spelled this out as a condition for showing that the local phone market is open to competition -- which Bell...
...Commerce Commissioner James Bernstein. If passed, the proposal would be the first major change of the state's telecommunications laws in 80 years. It would scrap a complex network of subsidies. They were originally designed to pay for the basic...
...few of top teachers union officials. Qwest Communications, which has a keen interest in proposals to overhaul telecommunications laws, has a 23-person team. And the Minnesota Vikings, a team also trying to vacate the Metrodome, has 10 registered...
...The meeting with reporters came after the House's Democratic leader accused Pawlenty of fighting tougher telecommunication laws while he was both a lawmaker and a director of NewTel. Minority Leader Rep. Matt Entenza of St. Paul, who...
...modifying a 35 percent limit on the national TV audience one company may reach through its stations. A 1996 telecommunications law required the FCC to periodically review ownership rules in light of greater competition and other changes in...
...Internet, only one-third of parents have activated software filters that can block certain Web sites. A 1996 telecommunications law required all new televisions, 13 inches and larger, sold after Jan. 1 to be equipped with the v-chip technology...
...end to the number of people who think it's perfectly OK to use them," says Joel Thierstein, professor of telecommunications law at Baylor University in Texas. "I don't think that it's going to stop unless they become afraid to do it...
...tax code without leaving schools in the lurch. Ventura used much of the address to outline plans for revising telecommunications laws, for revamping the way teachers are paid and licensed and for restructuring the Legislature itself. Of the...
...what Ventura hopes will help propel his ambitious plans for massive tax reform, an overhaul of the state's telecommunications laws and revamping the state's education system to pay teachers based on their performance. The governor acknowledged...
...them better access to data and expert advice. "We shouldn't let another year go by without reforming our telecommunications laws," Ventura said. "The future of our rural communities is clearly at stake." The governor said government...