...years, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been ensuring that the American people have a "rapid, efficient, Nation-wide and worldwide wire...service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges." American families who collectively spend billions of dollars on communications services have a huge...

...not use the phrase "universal service," but instead, respectively, establish the goal of providing "a rapid, efficient. Nation-wide, and world-wide wire...service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges," and authorize the Commission to "perform any and all acts, make such rules and regulations, and issue...

...basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex," should have, "so far as possible" access to a "rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire...communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges."2 This is certainly a worthy social goal. At 1 In fact, former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt admits...

...US Communications Act of 1 934, for example, proposed 'to make available, so far as possible, to all people of the United States, a rapid, efficient, nationwide and worldwide wire and radio communications service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges'. And American telephone company...

...sentence of the Communications Act of 1934. It describes the purpose of the Act and its amendments "to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination ... a rapid, efficient, Nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio communication...

...set forth the goal of American communications policy "to make available, so far as possible, to all people of the United States a rapid, efficient, nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio communications service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges." In telephony, this policy evolved...

...communications policy for decades. The Communications Act of 1934 has as its purpose "to make available to all the people of the United States ... a rapid, efficient, nation-wide and worldwide. . . communication service . . . with adequate facilities at reasonable charges. . . " Sixty years later,...

...communications policy for decades. The Communications Act of 1934 has as its purpose to make available to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide communications service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, and that is in the very first...

...of universal service. Rather, the commission is to be guided by the prudent goal of making service available "so far as possible, to all the people of the United States" (article 151). Similarly, the statute is cautious and vague with respect to facilities and...

...and Radiotelegraphs § 151. Purposes of Chapter; Federal Communications Commission Created For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce...so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, a rapid,...