EldoTelecom

JULY 11, 2024

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Investor owned telephone and cable companies and their trade associations hope the courts will put the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s recently issued Open Internet rulemaking on ice, slated to become effective July 22. They believe their case has been strengthened by the U.S.

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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

MAY 18, 2024

In the case of an area served by a rural telephone company, “service area” means such company’s “study area” unless and until the Commission and the States, after taking into account recommendations of a Federal-State Joint Board instituted under section 410(c) of this title , establish a different definition of service area for such company.

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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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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

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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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. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., See [link]. See West Virginia v. link] , ¶153-186. See MCI Telecommunications Corp.

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