Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 29, 2025

Verizon and the other carriers have made additional arguments for tossing the fines that would not implicate the FCC’s entire forfeiture process, including that the data at issue isn’t protected by the Communications Act.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

“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.” ” The U.S. Oral arguments are scheduled for Oct.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 5, 2024

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. The proposed segment will link Makaha, Hawaii, to Morro Bay, Calif., via an underwater fiber-optic network.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 12, 2024

billion Universal Service Fund, something that would normally have happened when the agency reclassified broadband providers as Title II common carriers. The Benton Institute for Broadband and Society and the Media Alliance challenged the FCC’s decision to abstain from tapping broadband revenue for its $8.1

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 8, 2024

Net Neutrality rules classified broadband as a common carrier service under Title II  of the Communications Act.  “It could well be a waste of resources for the parties and this Court to consider the issues in [the public interest challenges] at this time,” the groups wrote.

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EldoTelecom

JULY 11, 2024

They hope to convince the courts the FCC lacked authority to issue the rulemaking classifying Internet protocol-based services -- advanced telecommunications – as a common carrier telecom utility service under Title II of the Communications Act.

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EldoTelecom

JUNE 21, 2024

States could respond by enacting their own statutes treating advanced telecommunications as a common carrier utility, imposing universal service mandates barring neighborhood redlining and imposing rate regulation in order to ensure access and affordability and promote digital equity. Follow on Twitter @eldotelecom

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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.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

At issue is the scope of state authority to regulate broadband ISPs after the FCC had classified them as lightly regulated information service providers under Title I  of the Communications Act and not as heavily regulated common carriers under Title II of the same law.

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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

APRIL 9, 2024

Federal Communications Commission votes to reclassify Internet access as a common carrier utility under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 as expected April 25, it’s unlikely to increase affordable access. When the U.S. 202 , titled Discrimination and Preferences.

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EldoTelecom

DECEMBER 8, 2024

For analog voice telecommunications, public policy is to regulate them as common carrier utilities under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure widespread, affordable access. Both failed to establish clear, well thought out public policy to balance them.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In the short term, the Federal Communications Commission would be required within 120 days of enactment to publish a list of all entities that own a license for broadcasting or common carrier services obtained through a competitive bidding process in two circumstances.

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Telefrieden

APRIL 26, 2024

Having done so previously, the FCC recently restored the application of Title II telecommunications service, common carrier to Internet access. Does it also foreclose actions by both Democratic and Republican majorities to alter a regulatory regime by changing what Communications Act Title applies? link] , ¶153-186.

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Telefrieden

APRIL 29, 2024

There’s a lot of wiggle room in the criteria for a pro marketplace-oriented FCC to abandon common carrier rules and regulations. 160(a)(1)-(3). Despite all the conservative majority’s antipathy toward regulatory agency activism, Section 160 just might provide enough clarity to green light major deregulatory initiative.

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EldoTelecom

MAY 18, 2024

Pending California legislation (AB 1826) demonstrates the need for common carrier utility regulation of IP services.

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Telefrieden

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In a Declaratory Ruling, the FCC asked and answered whether it should shift its classification of texting from “old school” basic, common carrier telecommunications to something advanced and largely unregulatable information processing. 12075 (2018); available at: [link].

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Telefrieden

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Then again, some of them want to convert social networks into involuntary common carriers to deny them any sort of First Amendment editorial freedom. This sure looks like overreaching, legislating by unelected bureaucrats so reviled by the right. Lastly (I hope!),

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 24, 2025

They say the law only governs data the companies have as a result of providing common carrier voice services, and not data they have as a result of providing data services.

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Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 28, 2025

” The agency has maintained that the DOJ collection actions satisfy companies’ right to have a jury trial before any money is required to be paid – the carriers all paid their fines in order to appeal them.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 26, 2024

  On April 25, the FCC voted along party lines to classify broadband ISPs as common carriers. The ISPs have said Congress never handed power to the FCC to treat them as common carriers.  The court has not disclosed the name of the judges who will hear the case on the merits. 

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Telefrieden

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Bear in mind that the FCC, not the Federal Trade Commission, has consumer protection jurisdiction for so-called Title II regulated common carriers, including ventures offering pre-paid and post-paid wireless service. Should we infer that “on us” means free? Apparently, the FCC has no problem with the use of “on us” marketing.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that the FCC lacked authority to impose common carrier regulation on broadband Internet Service Providers like AT&T and Comcast. WASHINGTON, Jan.   On Jan. 2, a panel of the U.S.

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Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 11, 2025

The decision upholds the court’s finding that the FCC cannot classify internet service providers as Title II common carriers under the Telecommunications Act, ruling that the “best reading” of the statute requires broadband to be defined as a less-regulated information service.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 14, 2024

Brief of Amici Curiae TechFreedom and Washington Legal Foundation With its Order reimposing Title II common-carrier status on broadband, the FCC has “once again … switched its tack” in the “longrunning debate regarding the regulation of the Internet.” ” Mozilla Corp.

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EldoTelecom

MARCH 19, 2024

Since IP telecom is currently classified as lightly regulated optional information service under Title I of the Communications Act and not as a common carrier utility, providers are free to deploy delivery infrastructure wherever they wish and at rates of their choosing.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

This classification is consequential, of course, because “telecommunications service” providers, as common carriers, are regulated in a heavy-handed public utility like fashion while “information service” providers are lightly regulated.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 29, 2024

  The former aimed to reclassify broadband providers as common carriers under the Communications Act, and the latter prevented ISP business practices that result in gaps in broadband access for low-income people and racial minorities. He has made clear in public statements, though, that he opposes them.

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Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 12, 2024

  It would seem to also insulate the agency’s net neutrality order, which reclassified broadband providers as common carriers and was published in the federal register this past spring.

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VoIP Review

JANUARY 6, 2025

This ruling overturned a previous Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) effort to revive net neutrality regulations, reclassifying broadband providers as common carriers. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has significant implications regarding net neutrality.

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EldoTelecom

JUNE 11, 2025

The closest federal policy came to mandating universal access to advanced telecommunications was in 2015 when the FCC placed Internet protocol telecommunications under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, classifying it as a common carrier utility requiring reasonable requests for service be honored and barring neighborhood redlining.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 2, 2025

It’s the latest in the yearslong game of political ping pong over the policy, which would classify ISPs as common carriers under the Telecom Act and subject them to more expansive FCC oversight. ”  The decision was unanimous among the three Republican-appointed judges who heard the case on Oct.

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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A three-judge panel found last month that the Federal Communications Commission could not classify ISPs as Title II common carriers under the Telecommunications Act, ruling that the “best reading” of the statute required broadband be defined as a less-regulated information service.  WASHINGTON, Feb.

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EldoTelecom

MAY 12, 2024

The end of the Affordable Connectivity Act (ACP) sets the stage for the potential modification of the Federal Communication Commission’s recently adopted rulemaking classifying Internet protocol-based services as a common carrier utility under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.

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