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Carr Floats Covering Light Poles in Federal Law

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 3, 2025

” Carr indicated he wanted light poles to be used for connecting areas with fiber cables. In a July 2 speech in Sioux Falls, S.D., Carr announced he would ask his FCC colleagues to “revise and update the agency’s pole attachment rules.”

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Still a Long Road for Universal Service Reform, Panelists Say

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 13, 2025

” Angie Kronenberg , former general counsel and president of INCOMPAS, which represents independent ISPs and large software companies, said broadband providers should pay into the fund, given the lion’s share of USF money supports internet connectivity. Mattey has also authored a report arguing that’s the way to go.

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Verizon Requests License to Operate Pacific Fiber Cable

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 5, 2024

“[This segment] provides high capacity connectivity and backhaul for traffic between Hawaii and the continental United States and is a valuable option for transpacific capacity and diversity,” Verizon said in a July 25 filing at the Federal Communications Commission. via an underwater fiber-optic network.

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In a Changed Legal Landscape, the FCC Should Reconsider Net Neutrality Rules

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. In contrast to the U.S.,

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

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

EldoTelecom

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In the fourth decade since telecommunications began to shift to Internet protocol-based technologies, about half the connections to U.S. For analog voice telecommunications, public policy is to regulate them as common carrier utilities under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure widespread, affordable access.

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States must designate providers, service areas under FCC reclassification of Internet delivered services as telecommunications utility.

EldoTelecom

MAY 18, 2024

Cable TV franchises effectively became Internet service areas in the 2000s as cable companies began offering Internet connectivity and VOIP service in addition to video, putting them on a par with telephone companies’ Internet and VOIP services. That led a shift in regulatory policy, creating "video franchises."

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Does the FCC Have a Safe Harbor to Deregulate Despite the 1994 MCI Case Precedent?

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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). 160(a)(1)-(3).

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Remarkably Bad Consumer Protection at the FCC

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. Why would a facilities-based carrier pay over $ 1 billion to acquire a reseller of the carrier’s network?

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Law Prof van Schewick Calls Net Neutrality Ruling 'a Radical Decision’

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that the FCC lacked authority to impose common carrier regulation on broadband Internet Service Providers like AT&T and Comcast. She believes that consumers should be able to determine how their internet connection is metered; without government protections, this is out of their control.

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Lutnick’s right. Americans aren’t getting the benefit of the bargain -- of universal service.

EldoTelecom

JUNE 11, 2025

The closest federal policy came to mandating universal access to advanced telecommunications was in 2015 when the FCC placed Internet protocol telecommunications under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, classifying it as a common carrier utility requiring reasonable requests for service be honored and barring neighborhood redlining.

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Sixth Circuit Tosses Net Neutrality

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 2, 2025

It’s the latest in the yearslong game of political ping pong over the policy, which would classify ISPs as common carriers under the Telecom Act and subject them to more expansive FCC oversight. ” The decision was unanimous among the three Republican-appointed judges who heard the case on Oct.

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Advocates For Net Neutrality Appeal 6th Circuit Court Decision That FCC Won't

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A three-judge panel found last month that the Federal Communications Commission could not classify ISPs as Title II common carriers under the Telecommunications Act, ruling that the “best reading” of the statute required broadband be defined as a less-regulated information service. WASHINGTON, Feb.

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

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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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Carr Floats Covering Light Poles in Federal Law

Still a Long Road for Universal Service Reform, Panelists Say

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Verizon Requests License to Operate Pacific Fiber Cable

In a Changed Legal Landscape, the FCC Should Reconsider Net Neutrality Rules

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

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

States must designate providers, service areas under FCC reclassification of Internet delivered services as telecommunications utility.

Does the FCC Have a Safe Harbor to Deregulate Despite the 1994 MCI Case Precedent?

Remarkably Bad Consumer Protection at the FCC

Law Prof van Schewick Calls Net Neutrality Ruling 'a Radical Decision’

Lutnick’s right. Americans aren’t getting the benefit of the bargain -- of universal service.

Sixth Circuit Tosses Net Neutrality

Advocates For Net Neutrality Appeal 6th Circuit Court Decision That FCC Won't

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

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