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47 U.S.C. § 161 — Regulatory reform
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**(a) Biennial review of regulations** In every even-numbered year (beginning with 1998), the Commission—
(1) shall review all regulations issued under this chapter in effect at the time of the review that apply to the operations or activities of any provider of telecommunications service; and
(2) shall determine whether any such regulation is no longer necessary in the public interest as the result of meaningful economic competition between providers of such service.
**(b) Effect of determination** The Commission shall repeal or modify any regulation it determines to be no longer necessary in the public interest.
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**(a) Biennial review of regulations** In every even-numbered year (beginning with 1998), the Commission—
(1) shall review all regulations issued under this chapter in effect at the time of the review that apply to the operations or activities of any provider of telecommunications service; and
(2) shall determine whether any such regulation is no longer necessary in the public interest as the result of meaningful economic competition between providers of such service.
**(b) Effect of determination** The Commission shall repeal or modify any regulation it determines to be no longer necessary in the public interest.
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This chapter may be cited as the “Communications Act of 1934.”
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Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the Commission from time to time, as public convenience, interest, or necessity requires, shall—
**(a)** Classify radio stations;
**(b)** Prescribe the nature of the service to be rendered by each class of licensed stations and each station within any class;
**(c)** Assign bands of frequencies to the various classes of stations, and assign frequencies for each individual station and determine the power which each station shall use and the time during which it may operate;
**(d)** Determine the location of classes of stations or individual stations;
**(e)** Regulate the kind of apparatus to be used with respect to its external effects and the purity and sharpness of the emissions from each station and from the apparatus therein;
**(f)** Make such regulations not inconsistent with law as it may deem necessary to prevent interference between stations and to carry out the provisions of this chapter: Provided, however, That changes in the frequencies, authorized power, or in the times of operation of any station, shall not be made without the consent of the station licensee unless the Commission shall determine that such changes will promote public convenience or interest or will serve public necessity, or the provisions of this chapter will be more fully complied with;
**(g)** Study new uses for radio, provide for experimental uses of frequencies, and generally encourage the larger and more effective use of radio in the public interest;
**(h)** Have authority to establish areas or zones to be served by any station;
**(i)** Have authority to make special regulations applicable to radio stations engaged in chain broadcasting;
**(j)** Have authority to make general rules and regulations requiring stations to keep such rec
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TITLE 47—TELECOMMUNICATIONS
§ 160
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE
Section effective Oct. 1, 2018, see section 103 of div. P
of Pub. L. 115–141, set out as an Effective Date of 2018
Amendment note under section 156 of this title.
§ 160. Competition in provision of telecommuni-
cations service
(a) Regulatory flexibility
Notwithstanding section 332(c)(1)(A) of this
title, the Commission shall forbear from apply-
ing any regulation or any provision of this chap-
ter to a telecommunications carrier or tele-
communications
service,
or
class
of
tele-
communications carriers or telecommunications
services, in any or some of its or their geo-
graphic markets, if the Commission determines
that—
(1) enforcement of such regulation or provi-
sion is not necessary to ensure that the
charges, practices, classifications, or regula-
tions by, for, or in connection with that tele-
communications
carrier
or
telecommuni-
cations service are just and reasonable and are
not unjustly or unreasonably discriminatory;
(2) enforcement of such regulation or provi-
sion is not necessary for the protection of con-
sumers; and
(3) forbearance from applying such provision
or regulation is consistent with the public in-
terest.
(b) Competitive effect to be weighed
In making the determination under subsection
(a)(3), the Commission shall consider whether
forbearance from enforcing the provision or reg-
ulation will promote competitive market condi-
tions, including the extent to which such for-
bearance will enhance competition among pro-
viders of telecommunications services. If the
Commission determines that such forbearance
will promote competition among providers of
telecommunications services, that determina-
tion may be the basis for a
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