Excerpt from The Emerging Telecommunications Technologies Act of 1991; Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Communications of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session on S. 218: To Require the Secretary of Commerce to Make Additional Frequencies Available for Commercial Assignment in Order to Promote the Development and Use of New Telecommunications Technologies, and for Other Purposes; April 11, 1991 The current system with its protracted administrative procedures and inflexible regulation will stifle and retard the full development of the radio spectrum, which is an essential element of our Nation's communications infrastructure and an important national asset. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.