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. To boost our telecommunications security, we should heed the phrase: “follow the money.” Joshua Levine is a Research Fellow at FAI.

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EldoTelecom

DECEMBER 8, 2024

In the fourth decade since telecommunications began to shift to Internet protocol-based technologies, about half the connections to U.S. For analog voice telecommunications, public policy is to regulate them as common carrier utilities under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure widespread, affordable access.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The activist, results-driven Supreme Court appears ready to limit severely the ability of the Federal Communications Commission and other independent regulatory agencies to interpret ambiguous statutory language and answer essential questions about statutory meaning, even when vastly changing markets and technologies makes such work essential.

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Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Brief of Tech Freedom and Others The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is a deregulatory statute. As part of this deregulatory policy, the 1996 Act establishes a light-touch regulatory scheme for Title I information services—in contrast to more heavily regulated Title II telecommunications services. WASHINGTON, Sept.

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Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

In its  National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. This classification is consequential, of course, because “telecommunications service” providers, as common carriers, are regulated in a heavy-handed public utility like fashion while “information service” providers are lightly regulated.

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Telefrieden

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Democratic majority has clearly exempted broadband internet access from Title II common rate regulation. By the way, Title II still explicitly applies to wireless telecommunications, like cellphone service, and no one can credibly claim that carriers are severely constrained by overpowering FCC oversight.

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