[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 23 (Monday, February 26, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S1311]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                       THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT

 Mr. BREAUX. Mr. President, this telecommunications legislation 
is a deregulatory bill, and I am particularly pleased in this regard 
with the provisions covering commercial mobile services that lift the 
restrictions now disadvantaging the BOC affiliated CMRS carriers.
  As soon as this bill is signed into law, the BOC affiliated 
commercial mobile service carriers can begin to offer the full range of 
end-to-end interLATA services to their mobile customers just as their 
competitors are able to do now. They need no Government action or 
approval.
  I am pleased to have had the chairman confirm that my understanding 
is correct. Upon enactment, the MFJ interLATA restriction on commercial 
mobile service affiliates of the Bell operating companies is 
eliminated.

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