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Still a Long Road for Universal Service Reform, Panelists Say

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 13, 2025

” 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.”

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Verizon Requests License to Operate Pacific Fiber Cable

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 5, 2024

via an underwater fiber-optic network. Verizon has requested that the FCC exempt the cable system from common carrier regulation, arguing that it will be leased to other businesses rather than being made available for general public use. The proposed segment will link Makaha, Hawaii, to Morro Bay, Calif.,

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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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Joshua Levine: Getting the FACTs About Foreign Adversary Investment in Telecoms

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Cyber attacks on US telecommunications networks , government agencies , and western allies have been met by calls to improve security and close potential entry points for bad actors. ” The FACT Act offers a forward-looking approach to identify potential vectors of vulnerability within American communications networks.

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Network Neutrality Redux and the Return of Falsehoods and Disinformation

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Despite vowing to eschew involvement in the latest Network Neutrality drama, I cannot sit back and let stand the resumption of the distorted gospel preached by the anti-network neutrality crowd. Network neutrality regulation will not create a suffocating Internet rate regulation regime. 1, 47-87 (2015); [link].

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Does the Supreme Court Conservative Majority Want to Prevent Regulatory Agencies from Responding to Technological Innovation and Changed Circumstances?

Telefrieden

APRIL 26, 2024

Having done so previously, the FCC recently restored the application of Title II telecommunications service, common carrier to Internet access. Does it also foreclose actions by both Democratic and Republican majorities to alter a regulatory regime by changing what Communications Act Title applies? link] , ¶153-186.

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

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MAY 18, 2024

The LECs’ competitors, the incumbent cable operators, contended that state-level franchising would present new entrants with fewer obligations than cable companies had faced when they entered the market, specifically the obligation to build networks serving all parts of a community.

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

Telefrieden

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). Despite all the conservative majority’s antipathy toward regulatory agency activism, Section 160 just might provide enough clarity to green light major deregulatory initiative.

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Upcoming Limits on FCC Statutory Interpretations Unless It Deregulates

Telefrieden

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In a Declaratory Ruling, the FCC asked and answered whether it should shift its classification of texting from “old school” basic, common carrier telecommunications to something advanced and largely unregulatable information processing. 12075 (2018); available at: [link].

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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. On Jan. 2, a panel of the U.S.

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If Trump Won, What Would Carr Do as FCC Chairman?

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Inclusion on the list blocks a company from selling new products and network equipment in the U.S. The former aimed to reclassify broadband providers as common carriers under the Communications Act, and the latter prevented ISP business practices that result in gaps in broadband access for low-income people and racial minorities.

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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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Still a Long Road for Universal Service Reform, Panelists Say

Verizon Requests License to Operate Pacific Fiber Cable

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

Joshua Levine: Getting the FACTs About Foreign Adversary Investment in Telecoms

Network Neutrality Redux and the Return of Falsehoods and Disinformation

Does the Supreme Court Conservative Majority Want to Prevent Regulatory Agencies from Responding to Technological Innovation and Changed Circumstances?

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?

Upcoming Limits on FCC Statutory Interpretations Unless It Deregulates

Remarkably Bad Consumer Protection at the FCC

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

If Trump Won, What Would Carr Do as FCC Chairman?

Sixth Circuit Tosses Net Neutrality

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

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