---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 1005"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "1005"
heading: "Cooperation of equipment manufacturers and providers of telecommunications support services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/1005"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Interception of Digital and Other Communications"
  - "Subchapter I — Interception of Digital and Other Communications"
---

# §1005. Cooperation of equipment manufacturers and providers of telecommunications support services

- (a) **Consultation—** A [telecommunications carrier](/usc/47/1001.md?p=8) shall consult, as necessary, in a timely fashion with manufacturers of its telecommunications transmission and switching equipment and its providers of [telecommunications support services](/usc/47/1001.md?p=7) for the purpose of ensuring that current and planned equipment, facilities, and services comply with the capability requirements of [section 1002 of this title](/usc/47/1002.md) and the capacity requirements identified by the Attorney General under [section 1003 of this title](/usc/47/1003.md).
- (b) **Cooperation—** Subject to sections [1003(e)](/usc/47/1003.md?p=e), [1007(a)](/usc/47/1007.md?p=a), and [1008(b)](/usc/47/1008.md?p=b) and (d) of this title, a manufacturer of telecommunications transmission or switching equipment and a provider of [telecommunications support services](/usc/47/1001.md?p=7) shall, on a reasonably timely basis and at a reasonable charge, make available to the [telecommunications carriers](/usc/47/1001.md?p=8) using its equipment, facilities, or services such features or modifications as are necessary to permit such carriers to comply with the capability requirements of [section 1002 of this title](/usc/47/1002.md) and the capacity requirements identified by the Attorney General under [section 1003 of this title](/usc/47/1003.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–414, title I, § 106, Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4284.)