Cable Television Protection and Competition Act

In the United States, an Act of Congress (1992)

that amended the Communications Act of 1934 to provide increased consumer protection and to promote increased competition in the cable television (CATV) and related markets.The Act included provisions for rate regulation, customer service guidelines, and broadcast radio retransmission. The Act further included provisions with respect to local signal carriage regulation, specifically, must-carry and may-carry, i.e., retransmission consent. The Act was amended in important respects by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, particularly with respect to regulation of cable rates. See also broadcast radio, CATV, Communications Act of 1934, Telecommunications Act of 1996.

• PSK (Phase-Shift Keying)
• PSP (Payphone Service Provider)
• PSQM (Perceptual Speech Quality Measurement)
• PSQM+ (Perceptual Speech Quality Measurement plus)
• PSS1 (Private Signaling System No. 1)
• PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network)
• PSTS (Public Switched Telephone System)
• PTE (Path Terminating Equipment)
• PTI (Payload Type Indicator)
• PTT
• PTT
• public data network (PDN)
• public domain
• public IP address
• public key encryption
• public key infrastructure (PKI)
• Public Safety Access Point (PSAP)
• Public Service Commission (PSC)
• public switched telephone network (PSTN)
• public switched telephone system (PSTS)
• Public UNI (Public User Network Interface)
• Public Utility Commission (PUC)
• PUC (Public Utility Commission)
• pull
• pulse