CALEA's carrier definition also reaches an entity providing wire or electronic switching or transmission service that the FCC finds is a replacement for a substantial portion of the local telephone exchange service and that it is in the public interest to deem a carrier (the substantial replacement provision).
Checked 2026-10-02
a replacement for a substantial portion of the local telephone exchange service
- 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)(B)(ii)
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-substantial-replace. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/calea-lawful-intercept-voip-tc-def-substantial-replace
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-calea-lawful-intercept-voip-tc-def-substantial-replace,
title = {CALEA and lawful intercept for VoIP providers and enterprises: source note calea-lawful-intercept-voip-tc-def-substantial-replace},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/calea-lawful-intercept-voip-tc-def-substantial-replace},
note = {Source note calea-lawful-intercept-voip-tc-def-substantial-replace, checked 2026-10-02}
}