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Net Neutrality Levels Pole Attachment Playing Field: INCOMPAS, CPUC

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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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In a Changed Legal Landscape, the FCC Should Reconsider Net Neutrality Rules

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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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States must designate providers, service areas under FCC reclassification of Internet delivered services as telecommunications utility.

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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.