---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 765b"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "765b"
heading: "Elimination of procurement preferences"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/765b"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Communications Satellite System"
  - "Subchapter VI — Communications Competition and Privatization"
  - "Part C — Deregulation and Other Statutory Changes"
---

# §765b. Elimination of procurement preferences


Nothing in this subchapter or the Communications Act of 1934 [[47 U.S.C. 151](/usc/47/151.md) et seq.] shall be construed to authorize or require any preference, in Federal Government procurement of [telecommunications](/usc/47/702.md?p=6) services, for the satellite [space segment](/usc/47/757.md?p=3) provided by [INTELSAT](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-1), [Inmarsat](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-2), or any [successor entity](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-7) or [separated entity](/usc/47/769.md?p=a-8).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–624, title VI, § 643, as added Pub. L. 106–180, § 3, Mar. 17, 2000, 114 Stat. 56.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Communications Act of 1934, referred to in text, is act June 19, 1934, ch. 652, 48 Stat. 1064, which is classified principally to chapter 5 (§ 151 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 609 of this title and Tables.