What is the Telecommunications Act of 1996?
The Telecom Act of ’96 was the landmark legislation which deregulated the telecommunication industry in an attempt to “promote competition and reduce regulation in order to secure lower prices and higher quality services for American telecommunications consumers and encourage rapid deployment of new telecommunication technologies.” Its primary impact was the requirement of the ILECs to open up their networks to competitors (CLECs), future implementation of LNP, and allow the ILECs to start allowibiggest impact was to allow Mainly served to allow long-distance services from local providers. Seen as a watershed in telecom history, as it opened up the field for competition, gave some wiggling room to the underdogs and smaller start-ups and deregulated the playing field.
