EldoTelecom

MAY 18, 2024

The FCC’s reclassification of Internet delivered services as telecommunications services under its Open Internet rulemaking effectively abrogates this component of its 2019 rulemaking. Pending California legislation (AB 1826) demonstrates the need for common carrier utility regulation of IP services.

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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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Telefrieden

APRIL 29, 2024

Despite all the speculation about pending foreclosure of regulatory agency discretion, there is a provision in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that the Court might deem sufficiently clear to withstand the major question and ambiguity roadblocks: 47 U.S. Code § 160 - Competition in provision of telecommunications service. See [link].

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Telefrieden

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Lacking humility and common sense, the Court appears hellbent to outlaw statutory interpretation like what kinds of services fit within the following ambiguous words Congress crafted, circa 1996: “advanced telecommunications capability.” 1302(a), codified by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub. 104-104, 110 Stat.

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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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Telefrieden

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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Telefrieden

APRIL 26, 2024

Having done so previously, the FCC recently restored the application of Title II telecommunications service, common carrier to Internet access. See MCI Telecommunications Corp. link] , ¶153-186. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 218 (1994); [link].

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