Space Satellite Communications: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Monopoly of the Select Committee on Small Business, Volumes 1-2U.S.GovernmentPrint.Office, 1961 - Artificial satellites in telecommunication |
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Page 426 - For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges...
Page 426 - ... authorized carrier", except as otherwise provided for purposes of section 304 by section 304 (b) (1), means a communications common carrier which has been authorized by the Federal Communications Commission under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, to provide services by means of communications satellites; (8) the term "corporation...
Page 93 - Thorin, you come around and have a seat at the witness table, please. (At this point a short recess was taken after which the hearing was continued.) Senator STENNIS.
Page 426 - 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...
Page 487 - ... the interest of the public. The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers. To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public ; but to narrow the competition must always be against it...
Page 515 - ... (5) resolve differences arising among departments and agencies of the United States with respect to aeronautical and space activities under this Act, including differences as to whether a particular project is an aeronautical and space activity.
Page 276 - The Administrator shall determine, and promulgate regulations specifying, the terms and conditions upon which licenses will be granted by the Administration for the practice by any person (other than an agency of the United States) of any invention for which the Administrator holds a patent on behalf of the United States.
Page 602 - ... communication service throughout the whole world as soon as technically feasible, including service where individual portions of the coverage are not profitable; 3. Provide opportunities for foreign participation through ownership or otherwise in the communications satellite system; 4.
Page 494 - National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958". DECLARATION OF POLICY AND PURPOSE SEC. 102. (a) The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.
Page 487 - It comes from an order of men whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.