Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 5, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 5, 2024 - Verizon is seeking a federal license to operate a submarine cable system linking Hawaii and California. Verizon has requested that the FCC exempt the cable system from common carrier regulation, arguing that it will be leased to other businesses rather than being made available for general public use.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The cable industry and the U.S. “Regardless of what the FCC decides to do (or not do), that statute is clear, and the states cannot subvert congressional intent by treating broadband providers as rate-regulated common carriers.” WASHINGTON, Sept. Chamber of Commerce agree. ” The U.S.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The Federal Communications Commission is currently trying to keep alive its net neutrality rules, which would reclassify broadband as a telecom service subject to common carrier regulations. Even without net neutrality, many incumbent ISPs get this FCC oversight anyway because they also provide telecom services like voice and cable TV. 

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 12, 2024 –  Broadband is straightforwardly a telecommunications service subject to common carrier regulation, the Federal Communications Commission told federal judges Wednesday. The pizza analogies are references to a well-known dissent in NCTA v.

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EldoTelecom

JULY 11, 2024

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Investor owned telephone and cable companies and their trade associations hope the courts will put the U.S. In so providing this telecommunications service, the Act states providers “shall be treated as a common carrier” (i.e.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

and Ian Heath Gershengorn argued that any unilateral attempt by the Commission to treat broadband internet access service (BIAS) as a common carrier service under Title II of the  Communications Act of 1934  would be a “wasted effort.” Verrilli Jr.

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EldoTelecom

MAY 18, 2024

The task is complicated by a FCC rulemaking issued in 2019 ( DA/FCC #: FCC-19-80 ) that bars states from regulating most non-cable services including Internet access service offered over a cable system by an incumbent cable operator.

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