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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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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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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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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EldoTelecom

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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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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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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