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Still a Long Road for Universal Service Reform, Panelists Say

Broadband Breakfast

” The roughly $8 billion-per-year program supports building and maintaining rural networks, plus internet and phone discounts for low-income households, schools and libraries, and health care centers. That takes at least a year.” 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

“[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. Kostyu , Adam D.

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

Broadband Breakfast

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., In contrast to the U.S.,

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

EldoTelecom

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?

Telefrieden

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

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

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.