Rural Broadband Deployment Act of 2001 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make such Act inapplicable to advanced telecommunications service deployed by a carrier in a rural area (an area with a population of less than 50,000 located outside of a metropolitan statistical area). Defines advanced telecommunications service as the capability to transmit information at no less than 384 kilobits per second in at least one direction.
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Jun 28, 2001
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Jun 28, 2001
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7093-7094)