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S.1127
Title: A bill to stimulate the deployment of advanced telecommunications services in rural areas, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Brownback, Sam [KS] (introduced 6/28/2001)      Cosponsors: 1
Latest Major Action: 6/28/2001 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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6/28/2001:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
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Sen Enzi, Michael B. - 6/28/2001 [WY]

SUMMARY AS OF:
6/28/2001--Introduced.

Rural Broadband Deployment Act of 2001 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to make such Act inapplicable to advanced telecommunications service deployed by a carrier in a rural area (an area with a population of less than 50,000 located outside of a metropolitan statistical area). Defines advanced telecommunications service as the capability to transmit information at no less than 384 kilobits per second in at least one direction.