Each country has different telecommunications laws - or none at all.

Under the telecommunications law, the commission must complete the remaining rules for competition by May 1997.

The new pact is also being driven by big changes in nation's telecommunications laws.

A new telecommunications law allows open competition between telephone and cable companies.

One attack is from members of Congress who fear the commission will, under last year's telecommunications law, impose rules that drive up local phone rates.

And he will try to push through a sweeping revision of telecommunications law, which almost passed in the last Congress.

Cable rates have risen at three times the inflation rate since the telecommunications law was passed in early 1996, the groups said.

Much of the telecommunications law is dedicated to competition and dominant service providers.

Such give-and-take is provided for in the sweeping Federal telecommunications law that went into effect earlier this year.

Under the new telecommunications law, the regional Bell companies must meet a 14-point list of requirements before they can provide long-distance telephone service.

Q. Has the telecommunications law failed to encourage competition?

Nearly a decade after the break-up of the Bell system, no comprehensive telecommunications law has been passed.

Moreover, within the past year, Germany has undertaken extensive reforms of its telecommunications laws.

The deal, made possible be the recent overhaul of telecommunications laws, will form the nation's seventh-largest television holding company.

The new Federal telecommunications law will allow regional Bell companies to enter each other's markets.

In radio, the 1996 telecommunications law permits the same company to own eight stations in large markets, up from four.

The sale comes as television and radio companies rush to buy stations after recent changes in telecommunications law that raised ownership limits.

He wants to make Telmex one of the first foreign companies to test the new American telecommunications laws.

A Senate committee announced on 30 March it would review and update of the 1998 telecommunications law.

Several recent efforts to pass telecommunications laws have foundered after conflicting pressures from different interests within the industry.

The stocks have received less than a ringing endorsement on Wall Street because of the new telecommunications law.

This was the first major overhaul of U.S. telecommunications law in almost 62 years.

In 2006, a new telecommunications law was promulgated.

All short codes that start with the digit "4", are designated by a local telecommunications law for "network services".

"I suspect that regional phone companies spend every bit as much to get changes in telecommunications law," said the aide, who insisted on remaining anonymous.