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Core issue before FCC's proposed Title II rules: regulating advanced telecom as a common carrier utility

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Federal Communications Commission with its proposed Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet rulemaking that would reclassify IP telecom as a common carrier utility under Title II of the Communications Act. [link] While the context here is California, this is the core issue before the U.S.

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U.S. appellate court grants stay of FCC Title II reclassification of Internet as common carrier utility, citing lack of clear congressional authority

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The Sixth District United States Court of Appeals has granted a stay of a rulemaking issued by the Federal Communications Commission that would regard Internet protocol services as a common carrier telecommunications utility under Title II of the Communications Act.

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Net Neutrality Levels Pole Attachment Playing Field: INCOMPAS, CPUC

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The Federal Communications Commission is currently trying to keep alive its net neutrality rules, which would reclassify broadband as a telecom service subject to common carrier regulations. Broadband trade associations challenging the move in court convinced a panel of the U.S.

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

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They hope to convince the courts the FCC lacked authority to issue the rulemaking classifying Internet protocol-based services -- advanced telecommunications – as a common carrier telecom utility service under Title II of the Communications Act. Or which fails to confer clear rulemaking authority to an agency.

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Court Pauses Challenge to FCC’s USF Forbearance Policy

Broadband Breakfast

billion Universal Service Fund, something that would normally have happened when the agency reclassified broadband providers as Title II common carriers. The Benton Institute for Broadband and Society and the Media Alliance challenged the FCC’s decision to abstain from tapping broadband revenue for its $8.1

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Industry sponsored white paper points to public, consumer utility coop ownership of fiber telecom delivery infrastructure to achieve broad socioeconomic benefit.

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The 1996 Telecom Act and the Telecommunications Infrastructure Act of 1993 before it recognized the broader socioeconomic knock on effects of ubiquitous access to advanced telecommunications infrastructure. Both failed to establish clear, well thought out public policy to balance them.

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Major Questions Does Not Apply to Net Neutrality: FCC

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WASHINGTON, September 12, 2024 –  Broadband is straightforwardly a telecommunications service subject to common carrier regulation, the Federal Communications Commission told federal judges Wednesday. “These companies do not make or alter the food they deliver.”   A three-judge panel of U.S.