...Law 104-146.) (See Also Action Taken on HR 1872.) S. 652 MR. PRESSLER Mar. 30, 1995 To provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework...opening all telecommunications markets to competition, and for other purposes. Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Telecommunications Competition and Deregulation...

...boards. The general thrust of this omnibus overhaul of federal communications law was "to provide for a pro-competitive, deregulatory national policy framework...telecommunications and information technologies and services ... by opening all telecommunications markets to competition."2 The drafters wanted to ensure that...

...See Joint Explanatory Statement at 1 (stating that the intent of the 1996 Act is "to provide for a procompetitive, de-regulatory national policy framework...opening all telecommunications markets to competition. . . ."). 912 Department of Justice Evaluation at 3. The Department of Justice also enunciates this...

...Pub. L. No. 104-104, 1 10 Stat. 56 (19%) (19% Act). The principal goal of the Act is to "provide for a pro-competitive, deregulatory national policy framework...Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition.'1 See Joint Statement of Managers, S. Conf. Rep. No. 104-230, 104th Cong., 2d Sess. Preamble...

...(Washington Commission April 1996). " 47 USC § 251(d)(l). The Commission's implementing rules should be designed "to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment...opening all telecommunications markets to competition." Joint Explanatory Statement at 1. or [has] the effect of prohibiting the ability of any entity to provide...

...conclusions are premised on Congress' clearly expressed purpose in the 1 996 Act "to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework...technologies and services to all Americans by opening *° United States v. American Trucking Associations. 310 US 534, 543 (1967)(citations. footnote, and...

...that our proposed approach would help to fulfill Congress' mandate in the 1996 Act to "provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework...telecommunications and information technologies and services to all Americans."143 We believe that adoption of the above procedural mechanisms would enhance competition,...

...We also believe that our rules will help fulfill Congress' mandate in the 1996 Act to "provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework...telecommunications and information technologies and services to "'Communications Act, § 623(a), 47 USC § 543(a). "'HR Conf. Rep. No. 102-862, 102d Cong., 2d Sess....

...for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designated to accelerate rapidly the private sector deployment of advanced telecommunications...opening all telecommunications markets to competition " Joint Explanatory Statement of me Committee of Conference, HR Conf. Rep. No. 458, 104* Cong., 2d...

...Cong., 2d Sess. 1 (1996) (conference report indicating that purpose of 1 996 Act is "to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework...telecommunications and information technologies and services byopening all telecommunications markets to competition . . .") (emphases added). 10 Order at fl 16....