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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. Broadband trade associations challenging the move in court convinced a panel of the U.S.

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1996 Telecom Act affords FCC clear, unambiguous authority for Title II rulemaking

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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. That would conceivably bolster their case if the underlying statute here – the 1996 Telecom Act – was unclear or ambiguous or failed to grant the FCC authority for its rules.

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Major Questions Does Not Apply to Net Neutrality: FCC

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WASHINGTON, September 12, 2024 –  Broadband is straightforwardly a telecommunications service subject to common carrier regulation, the Federal Communications Commission told federal judges Wednesday. “These companies do not make or alter the food they deliver.”   A three-judge panel of U.S.

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The (Likely) End of the FCC’s Long-Running Net Neutrality Saga

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Well, due to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s decision in  Ohio Telecom Association v. In its  National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Then, the Obama FCC, in a rulemaking proceeding, classified ISPs as telecommunications providers so they would be regulated as common carriers.