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applicable requirements relating to venue 
under section 1391 of title 28, United States 
Code. 
‘‘(ii) SERVICE OF PROCESS.—In an ac-
tion brought under subparagraph (A)— 
‘‘(I) process may be served with-
out regard to the territorial limits of 
the district or of the State in which the 
action is instituted; and 
‘‘(II) a person who participated 
in an alleged violation that is being 
litigated in the civil action may be 
joined in the civil action without re-
gard to the residence of the person. 
‘‘(F) LIMITATION ON STATE ACTION WHILE 
FEDERAL ACTION IS PENDING.—If the Commis-
sion has instituted an enforcement action or pro-
ceeding for violation of this subsection, the chief 
legal officer or other State officer of the State in 
which the violation occurred may not bring an 
action under this section during the pendency of 
the proceeding against any person with respect 
to whom the Commission has instituted the pro-
ceeding. 
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‘‘(7) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-
section: 
‘‘(A) CALLER
IDENTIFICATION
INFORMA-
TION.—The term ‘caller identification informa-
tion’ means information provided by a caller 
identification service regarding the telephone 
number of, or other information regarding the 
origination of, a call made using a telecommuni-
cations service or IP-enabled voice service. 
‘‘(B) CALLER
IDENTIFICATION
SERVICE.— 
The term ‘caller identification service’ means 
any service or device designed to provide the user 
of the service or device with the telephone number 
of, or other information regarding the origina-
tion of, a call made using a telecommunications 
service or IP-enabled voice service. Such term in-
cludes automatic number identification services. 
‘‘(C) IP-ENABLED
VOICE
SERVICE.—The 
term ‘IP-enabled voice service’ means the provi-
sion of real-time 2-way voice communications of-
fered to the public, or such classes of users as to 
be effectively available to the public, transmitted 
through customer premises equipment using 
Internet protocol, or a successor protocol, for a 
fee (whether part of a bundle of services or sepa-
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rately) with interconnection capability such that 
the service can originate traffic to, or terminate 
traffic from, the public switched telephone net-
work. 
‘‘(8) LIMITATION.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of this section, subsection (f) shall not apply 
to this subsection or to the regulations under this sub-
section.’’. 
TITLE XIV—RURAL WIRELESS 
AND BROADBAND SERVICE 
SEC. 1401. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Rural Wireless and 
Broadband Service Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 1402. SMALL GEOGRAPHIC LICENSING AREAS. 
Section 309(j)(4)(C) (47 U.S.C. 309(j)(4)(C)) is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘service, prescribe’’ and inserting 
the following: ‘‘service— 
‘‘(i) prescribe’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘(i) an’’ and inserting ‘‘(I) an’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘(ii)’’ and inserting ‘‘(II)’’; 
(4) by striking ‘‘(iii)’’ and inserting ‘‘(III)’’; 
(5) by striking ‘‘services;’’ and inserting ‘‘serv-
ices; and’’; and 
(6) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(ii) consider the use of licensing spec-
trum in smaller geographic areas in order 
to encourage wireless deployment and build- 
out in rural and underserved areas of li-
censing spectrum in smaller geographic 
areas;’’. 
SEC. 1403. REPORT ON THE IMPACT OF SECONDARY MAR-
KET TRANSACTIONS. 
Section 309(j) (47 U.S.C. 309(j)) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following: 
‘‘(17) REPORT ON THE IMPACT OF SECONDARY 
MARKET TRANSACTIONS.—Not later than 2 years after 
the date of enactment of the Rural Wireless and 
Broadband Service Act of 2006, and every 2 years 
thereafter until the database developed under para-
graph (18) is available to the public, the Commission 
shall submit a report to Congress analyzing and eval-
uating the impact of the Commission’s— 
‘‘(A) spectrum leasing; and 
‘‘(B) 
spectrum 
partitioning 
and 
disaggregation rules in facilitating, through the 
development of secondary markets, the deploy-
ment of spectrum-based services to the public, 
particularly to those members of the public resid-
ing in rural and underserved areas. 
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