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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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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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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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

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

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

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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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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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

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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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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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

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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