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A 6 page paper discussing some of the ways that technology drives law within telecommunications. As technologies continue to converge, the need for new laws with different perspectives emerges. The paper discusses Internet privacy, wireless formats and cable involvement in the industry. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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state has a current law stating that anyone driving a car at night must have someone running ahead of him carrying a lantern. Of course the law is not
enforced or even acknowledged, but it does serve as example of the need for laws to evolve as technology changes. Telecommunications laws are not quite as antiquated, but they
too are obliged to change and evolve along with technology. The purpose here is to assess some of the ways that telecommunications law is influenced by technology. Calls for
Reform House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) echoes the thinking of many who are involved in some area of
the telecommunications industry. The Congressman says that existing telecommunications law needs a total overhaul. Congressman Barton says that "Internet technology and broadband distribution require an entirely new regulatory
model" (Hearn, 2005a; p. 12). The reason for this thinking is that broadband has refused to fit into any existing regulatory categories, and that it may be more sensible
to start over on telecommunications law than to try to revamp what currently exists (Hearn, 2005a). What currently exists resulted from a similar overhaul in 1996 as the Internet
began to come into its own (Hearn, 2005a). One of the factors leading to this position is that so much of the telecommunications
industry is no longer self-contained as it was in the past and as current law is written, particularly as convergence in voice, data and video continues to progress (Hearn, 2005a).
As these aspects of telecommunications advance technologically, increasingly both competitors and regulators are hindered by existing laws that generally address only cable and telephone companies, and force emerging technologies
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