47 U.S.C. § 34 — Licenses for landing or operating cables connecting United States with foreign country; necessity for

This section requires a license to run certain submarine cables. No person may land or operate, in the United States, a submarine cable that directly or indirectly connects the U.S. to a foreign country, or that connects one part of the U.S. to another part, unless the President has issued a written license allowing it. There is an exception: the licensing conditions in sections 34 to 39 of this title do not apply to a cable if the entire cable — including both its endpoints — lies wholly within the continental United States.