Under CALEA, a telecommunications carrier includes a person or entity engaged in the transmission or switching of wire or electronic communications as a common carrier for hire.
Checked 2026-10-02
a person or entity engaged in the transmission or switching of wire or electronic communications as a common carrier for hire
- Vendor
- not restricted
- Product
- not restricted
- Subsystem
- statutory definitions
- Deployment
- carrier
- Region
- us
- Release range
- current as of 2026-10-02
- Checked
- 2026-10-02
Sources
- 47 U.S. Code § 1001 - Definitions — Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School (text of the U.S. Code) · tier 1 standards and regulators · 47 USC 1001(8)(A)
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, October 2). CALEA and lawful intercept for VoIP providers and enterprises: source note calea-lawful-intercept-voip-tc-def-common-carrier. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/calea-lawful-intercept-voip-tc-def-common-carrier
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-calea-lawful-intercept-voip-tc-def-common-carrier,
title = {CALEA and lawful intercept for VoIP providers and enterprises: source note calea-lawful-intercept-voip-tc-def-common-carrier},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/calea-lawful-intercept-voip-tc-def-common-carrier},
note = {Source note calea-lawful-intercept-voip-tc-def-common-carrier, checked 2026-10-02}
}