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The Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006 (H.R. 5252) was a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives.[1] It was part of a major overhaul of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 being considered by the US Congress. The Act was sponsored by Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX), Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Rep. Charles Pickering (R-MS) and Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL).
The last version of the Act (HR 5252)[2] included network neutrality provisions defined by the FCC. An amendment offered by Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) would have supplemented these with a prohibition against service tiering, which would have prevented Internet service providers charging consumers more money in exchange for not reducing their Internet speed. The COPE Act was passed by the full House on June 8, 2006; the Markey Amendment failed,[3][4] leaving the final bill without meaningful network neutrality provisions.
The US Senate was also involved in the issue. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced the Internet Nondiscrimination Act of 2006, and Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) were expected to introduce a bipartisan amendment supporting net neutrality when the Senate took up its own rewrite (the "Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006", aka S. 2686 [1] 2016-07-04 at the Wayback Machine) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996[5] later that year.
The bill would have created a single set of national video franchising rules that permit competitors to enter the market without obtaining thousands of individual city-by-city agreements.
^9/29/2006 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 652. See References.
^Now the Advanced Telecommunications and Opportunities Reform Act or the Act of 2006 -- and has another entry here as the Telecommunications Act of 2005
^"Consumer Video Choice Vote in House Bodes Well for Similar Legislation in Senate, Says Verizon Executive". 14 June 2006.
Referencesedit
S.Rept. 355 Document, description of the Communications Act of 2006
Library of Congress. H.R.5252-RS - 29 September 2006 - 109-355 25 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine Communications Act of 2006 (text of the proposed legislation)
Library of Congress. H.R.5252 - All Congressional Actions w/Amendments 2016-07-05 at the Wayback Machine All speeches, amendments on the House Floor, 1 May 2006 through 29 September 2006 (ongoing)
External linksedit
, by John Nichols, The Nation, June 9, 2006
, by Tom Lasseter, BBC, June 9, 2006.
Full text of COPE 2006 (pdf)
U.S. House Record of the Roll Call Vote on the Markey Amendment
(PDF)
May 03, 2024
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