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

EldoTelecom

In the case of an area served by a rural telephone company, “service area” means such company’s “study area” unless and until the Commission and the States, after taking into account recommendations of a Federal-State Joint Board instituted under section 410(c) of this title , establish a different definition of service area for such company.

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1996 Telecom Act affords FCC clear, unambiguous authority for Title II rulemaking

EldoTelecom

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Investor owned telephone and cable companies and their trade associations hope the courts will put the U.S. In so providing this telecommunications service, the Act states providers “shall be treated as a common carrier” (i.e. The problem is doesn't meet any of these tests.

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Upcoming Limits on FCC Statutory Interpretations Unless It Deregulates

Telefrieden

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

Telefrieden

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

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Network Neutrality Redux and the Return of Falsehoods and Disinformation

Telefrieden

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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