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Cable, Chamber of Commerce Ask SCOTUS to Toss N.Y. Broadband Law

Broadband Breakfast

“​​The fundamental issue is that New York’s attempt at rate regulation conflicts with the Communications Act itself,” NCTA, the cable industry group, wrote in an amicus brief posted Friday. ” The U.S. Oral arguments are scheduled for Oct.

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FCC reclassification of Internet access as Title II utility likely to have little impact on affordability

EldoTelecom

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

EldoTelecom

Federal Communications Commission’s recently issued Open Internet rulemaking on ice, slated to become effective July 22. The transmitted content isn’t changed; it’s communicated over the Internet to one or more parties. They believe their case has been strengthened by the U.S.

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Industry sponsored white paper points to public, consumer utility coop ownership of fiber telecom delivery infrastructure to achieve broad socioeconomic benefit.

EldoTelecom

Thats according to a recently published white paper commissioned by the Fiber Broadband Association and Frontier Communications. As a result, a private market equilibrium that balances the marginal revenue and marginal cost of fiber deployment will lead to an under-provision of fiber resources, resulting in market failure.

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

Broadband Breakfast

There’s probably not a communications or administrative lawyer or scholar alive today who is not familiar with the decades-old “net neutrality” saga. Then, the Obama FCC, in a rulemaking proceeding, classified ISPs as telecommunications providers so they would be regulated as common carriers.

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End of ACP could bring modfication of FCC Title II rulemaking to allow regulation of residential Internet services

EldoTelecom

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.