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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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Conventional economic theory distinguishes a public utility from a supplier of goods and services in a market by identifying whether the good in question is a monopoly. In many parts of urban and rural California, internet services are indeed a monopoly—or at best a duopoly.

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Net Neutrality Levels Pole Attachment Playing Field: INCOMPAS, CPUC

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But one trade group for Internet Service Providers and state officials told judges Wednesday it comes with at least one big benefit: backup from the government in negotiations with utility pole owners. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2024 – Broadband providers want to avoid net neutrality because it comes with more expansive federal oversight.

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

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Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals announced  last month  that it would temporarily block the Commission’s highly controversial  net neutrality rule , which imposes utility-style regulations on the internet and requires service providers to  treat  different types of data the same. Verrilli Jr.

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

EldoTelecom

The task is complicated by a FCC rulemaking issued in 2019 ( DA/FCC #: FCC-19-80 ) that bars states from regulating most non-cable services including Internet access service offered over a cable system by an incumbent cable operator. That led a shift in regulatory policy, creating "video franchises."

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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

In the fourth decade since telecommunications began to shift to Internet protocol-based technologies, about half the connections to U.S. That leads to micro market segmentation as seen on so-called broadband maps that an East Texas local government official compared to the spotted coat of a Dalmatian.

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Upcoming Limits on FCC Statutory Interpretations Unless It Deregulates

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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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Free Market Think Tanks Back ISPs in Net Neutrality Challenge

Broadband Breakfast

Brief of Amici Curiae TechFreedom and Washington Legal Foundation With its Order reimposing Title II common-carrier status on broadband, the FCC has “once again … switched its tack” in the “longrunning debate regarding the regulation of the Internet.” ” Mozilla Corp. FCC, 940 F.3d