Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 12, 2024

The Benton Institute for Broadband and Society and the Media Alliance challenged the FCC’s decision to abstain from tapping broadband revenue for its $8.1 billion Universal Service Fund, something that would normally have happened when the agency reclassified broadband providers as Title II common carriers.

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EldoTelecom

JULY 11, 2024

They hope to convince the courts the FCC lacked authority to issue the rulemaking classifying Internet protocol-based services -- advanced telecommunications – as a common carrier telecom utility service under Title II of the Communications Act. So would posting to a website or social media site.

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Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 8, 2024

  The Benton Institute for Broadband and Society and the Media Alliance want to pause their USF issue because the FCC has the issue on reconsideration. Net Neutrality rules classified broadband as a common carrier service under Title II  of the Communications Act. 

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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. Please send pieces to  commentary@breakfast.media.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

At issue is the scope of state authority to regulate broadband ISPs after the FCC had classified them as lightly regulated information service providers under Title I  of the Communications Act and not as heavily regulated common carriers under Title II of the same law. Amicus briefs in support of the N.Y.

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Telefrieden

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Then again, some of them want to convert social networks into involuntary common carriers to deny them any sort of First Amendment editorial freedom. 1, 47-87 (2015); [link]. This sure looks like overreaching, legislating by unelected bureaucrats so reviled by the right. Lastly (I hope!),

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