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 8, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 8, 2024 – The Federal Communications Commission’s decision to exempt Internet Service Providers from kicking into a federal broadband subsidy program has this week stirred some procedural activity in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In a legal setback for the Federal Communication Commission, the U.S. 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.”

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 12, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit  agreed Friday to pause consumer groups’ effort to require Internet Service Providers to contribute to a multibillion broadband subsidy program run by the  Federal Communications Commission.

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EldoTelecom

MAY 18, 2024

That FCC rulemaking concluded the federal Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 preempts state and local governments from regulating Internet and VOIP services under their video franchising authority. Pending California legislation (AB 1826) demonstrates the need for common carrier utility regulation of IP services.

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Telefrieden

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The activist, results-driven Supreme Court appears ready to limit severely the ability of the Federal Communications Commission and other independent regulatory agencies to interpret ambiguous statutory language and answer essential questions about statutory meaning, even when vastly changing markets and technologies makes such work essential.

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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

WASHINGTON, August 14, 2024 – Two right-leaning think tanks backing ISPs in the challenge to the Federal Communications Commissions Net Neutrality rules claim the new regulatory landscape created by the Supreme Court will doom the rules. Available to Breakfast Club Members In a brief filed Wednesday in the U.S.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For almost twenty years, the Federal Communications Commission adhered to Congress’s deregulatory directive, correctly classifying broadband as a Title I service. Available to Breakfast Club Members A panel of the U.S. "The Second Circuit’s ruling is extraordinarily harmful. Signed into law by Gov.

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EldoTelecom

MARCH 19, 2024

That mirrors the Federal Communications Commission’s Preventing Digital Discrimination rulemaking adopted in November as mandated by section 60506 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA).

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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 Communications Act likely does not plainly authorize the [FCC] to resolve this signal question.

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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

The Court’s conservative super majority wants to reverse its Chevron Doctrine that conditionally supports judicial deference to the expertise resident in agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission. See [link]. See West Virginia v. link] , ¶153-186. See MCI Telecommunications Corp. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.,

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Telefrieden

OCTOBER 20, 2023

By the way, Title II still explicitly applies to wireless telecommunications, like cellphone service, and no one can credibly claim that carriers are severely constrained by overpowering FCC oversight. Title II of the Communications Act does not impose some atavistic, old school “public utility” regulation. Lastly (I hope!),

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