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Alternatively, communication technologies that don't rely on wires to transmit data are considered [[wireless]].
 
The legal definition of most, if not all, [[wireless]] technologies today or "''apparatus, and services (among other things, the receipt, forwarding, and delivery of communications) incidental to such transmission''" a wire communication as defined in the [[Communications act of 1934]] in 47 U.S.C. §153 ¶([http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/153#59 59]). This makes everything online today and all [[wireless]] phones a use of wire communications<ref>{{cite web|title=47 U.S.C. §153 ¶59|url=http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/153#59|website=Legal Information Institute|accessdate=14 June 2014|ref=1}}</ref> by law whether a physical connection to wire is visible or is not. The [[Communications act of 1934]] created the [[Federal Communications Commission]] to replace the [[Federal Radio Commission]]. If there were no real wired communications today, there would be no online and there would be no mobile phones or nothing [[wireless]] except [[satellite communications]].