47 U.S.C. § 765 — Access to INTELSAT
submitted 26 years ago by Pub. L. 87-624 to r/title-47-TELECOMMUNICATIONS · 196 words · no verdicts yet
Beginning March 17, 2000, telecommunications users and providers must be allowed to buy direct access to INTELSAT services and space capacity at the level INTELSAT then called “Level III.” The Commission must review access and act if direct access is insufficient, while preserving contracts.
(a) Access permitted. Beginning March 17, 2000, users or providers of telecommunications services must be allowed to obtain direct access to INTELSAT* telecommunications services and space-segment capacity by buying that capacity or those services from INTELSAT. The access must be at the level INTELSAT commonly called “Level III” on March 17, 2000.
(b) Rulemaking. Within 180 days after March 17, 2000, the Commission* must finish a rulemaking, with notice and an opportunity for interested people to submit comments. The rulemaking must decide whether telecommunications users and providers have enough opportunity to obtain INTELSAT space-segment capacity directly from INTELSAT to meet their service or capacity needs. If the Commission decides they do not, it must take suitable action under this chapter and the Communications Act of 1934 to make direct access easier. The Commission must take any steps needed to prevent people from defeating this section’s purpose.
(c) Contract preservation. Nothing in this section may be interpreted to allow the cancellation or alteration of any contract.
Beginning on March 17, 2000, users or providers of telecommunications services shall be permitted to obtain direct access to INTELSAT* telecommunications services and space segment* capacity through purchases of such capacity or services from INTELSAT. Such direct access shall be at the level commonly referred to by INTELSAT, on March 17, 2000, as “Level III”.
Within 180 days after March 17, 2000, the Commission* shall complete a rulemaking, with notice and opportunity for submission of comment by interested persons, to determine if users or providers of telecommunications services have sufficient opportunity to access INTELSAT space segment capacity directly from INTELSAT to meet their service or capacity requirements. If the Commission determines that such opportunity to access does not exist, the Commission shall take appropriate action to facilitate such direct access pursuant to its authority under this chapter and the Communications Act of 1934 [47 U.S.C. 151 et seq.]. The Commission shall take such steps as may be necessary to prevent the circumvention of the intent of this section.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the abrogation or modification of any contract.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 87–624, title VI, § 641, as added Pub. L. 106–180, § 3, Mar. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 55.)
- 2000Enacted · Pub. L. 87-624 · 114 Stat. 55
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