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Title 47 — Telecommunications

Part C · Chapter 6 — Communications Satellite System

§ 765f. Satellite auctions

Statutory text

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commission shall not have the authority to assign by competitive bidding orbital locations or spectrum used for the provision of international or global satellite communications services. The President shall oppose in the International Telecommunication Union and in other bilateral and multilateral fora any assignment by competitive bidding of orbital locations or spectrum used for the provision of such services.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 87–624 title VI § 647 · 76 Stat. 419

    Enacted · 47 U.S.C. § 765f

    (Pub. L. 87–624, title VI, § 647, as added Pub. L. 106–180, § 3, Mar. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 57.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 87–624, title VI, § 647, as added Pub. L. 106–180, § 3, Mar. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 57.)

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Credits

(Pub. L. 87–624, title VI, § 647, as added Pub. L. 106–180, § 3, , 114 Stat. 57.)

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