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Core issue before FCC's proposed Title II rules: regulating advanced telecom as a common carrier utility

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Federal Communications Commission with its proposed Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet rulemaking that would reclassify IP telecom as a common carrier utility under Title II of the Communications Act. [link] While the context here is California, this is the core issue before the U.S.

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U.S. appellate court grants stay of FCC Title II reclassification of Internet as common carrier utility, citing lack of clear congressional authority

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The Sixth District United States Court of Appeals has granted a stay of a rulemaking issued by the Federal Communications Commission that would regard Internet protocol services as a common carrier telecommunications utility under Title II of the Communications Act.

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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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Federal Communications Commission’s recently issued Open Internet rulemaking on ice, slated to become effective July 22. 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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Court Pauses Challenge to FCC’s USF Forbearance Policy

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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. Consumer groups and advocates said those fears were unfounded during the rulemaking process. 

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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.

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Thats according to a recently published white paper commissioned by the Fiber Broadband Association and Frontier Communications. The 1996 Telecom Act and the Telecommunications Infrastructure Act of 1993 before it recognized the broader socioeconomic knock on effects of ubiquitous access to advanced telecommunications infrastructure.