HD19 - Report of the Joint Subcommittee Studying the Appropriate Mode of Regulation of Radio Common Carriers
Executive Summary: Land mobile radio has been an obscure part of the telecommunications industry and of the regulatory activities of the Federal Communications Commission for many years. Public visibility of the service has been limited to a specific group of users with self-evident needs for mobile radio communications, including police and fire departments, the military, and taxicab companies. All of this, however, is changing, largely due to the development of cellular mobile systems. The advent of cellular technologies has increased public awareness and use of land mobile radio. The increase in public awareness of these services has raised the question of whether full regulation of radio common carriers, including the providers of radio paging and cellular radio telecommunications services is necessary. In Virginia radio common carriers have been fully regulated since 1970 and cellular providers have been regulated since 1983. In order to determine whether continued regulation of radio common carriers, including radio pagers and cellular providers is appropriate, a joint subcommittee was established pursuant to House Joint Resolution No. 62 of the 1984 Session of the General Assembly. |
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