---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 1432"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "1432"
heading: "Prohibition on direct offering of commercial telecommunications service directly to consumers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/1432"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Public Safety Communications and Electromagnetic Spectrum Auctions"
  - "Subchapter II — Governance of Public Safety Spectrum"
---

# §1432. Prohibition on direct offering of commercial telecommunications service directly to consumers

- (a) **In general—** The [First Responder Network Authority](/usc/47/1401.md?p=15) shall not offer, provide, or market commercial telecommunications or information services directly to consumers.
- (b) **Rule of construction—** Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the [First Responder Network Authority](/usc/47/1401.md?p=15) and a secondary user from entering into a covered leasing agreement pursuant to [section 1428(a)(2)(B) of this title](/usc/47/1428.md?p=a-2-B). Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the [First Responder Network Authority](/usc/47/1401.md?p=15) from collecting lease fees related to network equipment and infrastructure pursuant to [section 1428(a)(3) of this title](/usc/47/1428.md?p=a-3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 112–96, title VI, § 6212, Feb. 22, 2012, 126 Stat. 218.)