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Definition"Wire Communication"
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The definition of a wire communication is set forth in 18 U.S.C.
§
2510(1). It is limited to "aural" transfers made by aid of "wire, cable or
other
like connection." Because the 1994 Act specifically eliminated the
exclusion
from this definition the radio portion of a cordless telephone communication
that
is transmitted between the cordless telephone handset and the base unit,
such
communications are now protected by the statute. See H.Rep. No.
103-827,
103d Cong., 2d Sess. (1994), reprinted in 1994 U.S.Code Cong. &
Ad.News
3489, 3510. See McKamey v. Roach, 55 F.3d 1236, 1238 n.1 (6th
Cir.
1995) (noting change in law).
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