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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Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In the short term, the Federal Communications Commission would be required within 120 days of enactment to publish a list of all entities that own a license for broadcasting or common carrier services obtained through a competitive bidding process in two circumstances. Please send pieces to  commentary@breakfast.media.

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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

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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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

Well, due to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s decision in  Ohio Telecom Association v. Then, the Obama FCC, in a rulemaking proceeding, classified ISPs as telecommunications providers so they would be regulated as common carriers. FCC  on January 2, the saga, mercifully, may be coming to an end.

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Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 29, 2024

” Broadband Breakfast on October 30, 2024 - Tech and Telecom in Advance of the Next Administration An interactive town hall exploring the critical issues that will shape America’s digital future in the next presidential administration. Both rulemakings were challenged in court by the telecom industry.

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