S 1126 · 107th Congress 2001–2003, ended

Broadband Deployment and Competition Enhancement Act of 2001

Introduced Jun 28, 2001 Originated Senate Sponsor Sam Brownback R-KS

Fact sheet

Latest action · Jun 28, 2001 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedJun 28, 2001
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Broadband Deployment and Competition Enhancement Act of 2001 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit subjecting an incumbent local exchange carrier (carrier) to common carrier regulation with respect to any optical fiber facility, or any technology of a similar facility, in the carrier's network that is used to provide service to residential customers and that is or was deployed where no outside telephone distribution plant previously existed, or from any structure or premise to a customer premise, if the facility is capable of providing advance service. Prohibits subjecting such a carrier to such regulation with respect to packet switching or successor technology or the resale of advanced service or high-speed Internet access service. Requires such carrier to provide: (1) collocation in its central offices with respect to equipment used in the provision of advanced service; and (2) advanced service to all of its customers in a State within five years after the enactment of this Act, making carriers that do not so comply subject to common carrier regulation thereafter.

Prohibits requiring such a carrier to convert to a network element or combination of network elements any special access circuit being provided on June 1, 2001.

Requires the Federal Communications Commission to identify in its regulations any requirements or obligations that result in different or disparate treatment among various types of providers of advanced service and high-speed Internet access service, or among different technologies used to provide such service.

Cosponsors 2

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 28, 2001 to Jul 23, 2001, with 1 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-WYMichael B. EnziOriginalJun 28, 2001
R-ARTim HutchinsonJul 23, 2001

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Jun 28, 2001Introduced in Senate
  2. Jun 28, 2001Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
  3. Jun 28, 2001Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7093-7094)

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications.

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