Communications Act of 1934 - Legacy

Legacy

The act established a legal base for regulating wired and wireless communications on a nation-wide and worldwide basis. The Federal Communication Commission founded because of the act; it replaced the Federal Radio Commission. Because of the act, the U.S. government could regulate new media technologies such as television and mobile phones. Moreover, the act created a legal basis commercial communication corporations as private TV and radio station. Opponents in Congress argued the act depressed telecommunication industry, such as delaying the development of new technologies for example. In 1982 Congress produced a report recommending changes called "Proposals for Revision of the Communications Act of 1934: Telecommunications Issues".