EldoTelecom

MARCH 23, 2024

In many parts of urban and rural California, internet services are indeed a monopoly—or at best a duopoly. The common policy response to the monopoly is to either place the service provider into public hands or use a regulatory framework to curtail the ability of the provider to exploit a monopoly position.

Common Carrier

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 8, 2024

WASHINGTON, August 8, 2024 – The Federal Communications Commission’s decision to exempt Internet Service Providers from kicking into a federal broadband subsidy program has this week stirred some procedural activity in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati. billion Universal Service Fund.

Common Carrier

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 12, 2024

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit  agreed Friday to pause consumer groups’ effort to require Internet Service Providers to contribute to a multibillion broadband subsidy program run by the  Federal Communications Commission. Additional briefs by the ISPs were due today.

Common Carrier

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals announced  last month  that it would temporarily block the Commission’s highly controversial  net neutrality rule , which imposes utility-style regulations on the internet and requires service providers to  treat  different types of data the same. Verrilli Jr.

Common Carrier

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

WASHINGTON, September 12, 2024 –  Broadband is straightforwardly a telecommunications service subject to common carrier regulation, the Federal Communications Commission told federal judges Wednesday. Oral arguments in the case are slated for this Halloween, on October 31.

Common Carrier

EldoTelecom

MAY 18, 2024

The task is complicated by a FCC rulemaking issued in 2019 ( DA/FCC #: FCC-19-80 ) that bars states from regulating most non-cable services including Internet access service offered over a cable system by an incumbent cable operator. That led a shift in regulatory policy, creating "video franchises." Follow on Twitter @eldotelecom

Telecommunication

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. Thats according to a recently published white paper commissioned by the Fiber Broadband Association and Frontier Communications. homes have not yet been modernized to fiber optic lines.

Common Carrier

Telefrieden

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Network neutrality regulation will not create a suffocating Internet rate regulation regime. Network neutrality regulation will not create a suffocating Internet rate regulation regime. The Democratic majority has clearly exempted broadband internet access from Title II common rate regulation.

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Telefrieden

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Heretofore, no one has questioned the lawfulness of the FCC’s determination that this undefined category includes broadband, Internet access. See Petitions for Declaratory Ruling on Regulatory Status of Wireless Messaging Service, Declaratory Ruling, 33 FCC Rcd. 12075 (2018); available at: [link].

Telecommunication

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 26, 2024

WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2024 – Federal regulators now have a court date to try to inject new life into their impaired Internet competition rules.  ET.   On April 25, the FCC voted along party lines to classify broadband ISPs as common carriers. It’s Halloween.    The U.S. ” On Aug.

Common Carrier

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that the FCC lacked authority to impose common carrier regulation on broadband Internet Service Providers like AT&T and Comcast. WASHINGTON, Jan.   On Jan. 2, a panel of the U.S. ”  This is exactly what net neutrality was meant to prevent, she explained.

Common Carrier

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 14, 2024

Brief of Amici Curiae TechFreedom and Washington Legal Foundation With its Order reimposing Title II common-carrier status on broadband, the FCC has “once again … switched its tack” in the “longrunning debate regarding the regulation of the Internet.” ” Mozilla Corp. FCC, 940 F.3d

Common Carrier

EldoTelecom

MARCH 19, 2024

AB 2239 would define it as “policies or practices, not justified by genuine issues of technical or economic feasibility, that differentially impact consumers’ access to broadband internet access service based on their income level, race, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin, or that are intended to have a differential impact.”

Common Carrier

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Carr actually outlined his priorities for broadband and telecommunications policy in a chapter of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 policy agenda. Broadband in the Next Administration Don’t miss the chance to learn about BEAD, spectrum, Universal Service Fund reform, and the future of the internet.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

With no need for more extensive elaboration here, it suffices to point out that “net neutrality,” a term  coined by Columbia Law School Professor Tim Wu , embodies the notion that broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) will not block or throttle access to lawful content or prioritize the delivery of content.  

Common Carrier

VoIP Review

JANUARY 6, 2025

This ruling overturned a previous Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) effort to revive net neutrality regulations, reclassifying broadband providers as common carriers. Under the Obama administration, net neutrality rules were first established in 2015, identifying broadband internet as an essential service.

Common Carrier

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 2, 2025

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit set aside the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules Thursday, writing that broadband is subject to light-touch regulation under the best reading of the law. “The FCC exceeded its statutory authority by issuing the Safeguarding Order.”  31, 2024.

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A three-judge panel found last month that the Federal Communications Commission could not classify ISPs as Title II common carriers under the Telecommunications Act, ruling that the “best reading” of the statute required broadband be defined as a less-regulated information service. 

Common Carrier

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 11, 2025

The decision upholds the court’s finding that the FCC cannot classify internet service providers as Title II common carriers under the Telecommunications Act, ruling that the “best reading” of the statute requires broadband to be defined as a less-regulated information service.

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