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FCC Urges Judges Not to Follow Fifth Circuit in Striking Down Fines

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APRIL 28, 2025

” The agency has maintained that the DOJ collection actions satisfy companies’ right to have a jury trial before any money is required to be paid – the carriers all paid their fines in order to appeal them.

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Tech Think Tanks Fighting N.Y. Broadband Law in Supreme Court

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

13, 2024 – Two tech think tanks want the Supreme Court to block states from regulating retail broadband rates. For almost twenty years, the Federal Communications Commission adhered to Congress’s deregulatory directive, correctly classifying broadband as a Title I service. WASHINGTON, Sept. Signed into law by Gov.

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Net Neutrality Levels Pole Attachment Playing Field: INCOMPAS, CPUC

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

19, 2024 – Broadband providers want to avoid net neutrality because it comes with more expansive federal oversight. 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.

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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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MARCH 23, 2024

Once in the public hands, the service provider can be compelled to prioritize social outcomes, such as equity of access, affordability, or similar—exactly from which our California communities stand to benefit since many currently lack equitable access to affordable, reliable broadband internet.

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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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AUGUST 1, 2024

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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Court Pauses Challenge to FCC’s USF Forbearance Policy

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.

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Major Questions Does Not Apply to Net Neutrality: FCC

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. “These companies do not make or alter the food they deliver.” A three-judge panel of U.S.

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Joshua Levine: Getting the FACTs About Foreign Adversary Investment in Telecoms

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In the short term, the Federal Communications Commission would be required within 120 days of enactment to publish a list of all entities that own a license for broadcasting or common carrier services obtained through a competitive bidding process in two circumstances. This Expert Opinion is exclusive to Broadband Breakfast.

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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.

EldoTelecom

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Thats according to a recently published white paper commissioned by the Fiber Broadband Association and Frontier Communications. That leads to micro market segmentation as seen on so-called broadband maps that an East Texas local government official compared to the spotted coat of a Dalmatian.

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California legislation would adopt definition of digital discrimination

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.”

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If Trump Won, What Would Carr Do as FCC Chairman?

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. WASHINGTON, Oct.

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The (Likely) End of the FCC’s Long-Running Net Neutrality Saga

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

Well, due to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Ohio Telecom Association v. Then, the Obama FCC, in a rulemaking proceeding, classified ISPs as telecommunications providers so they would be regulated as common carriers. FCC on January 2, the saga, mercifully, may be coming to an end.

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Sixth Circuit Tosses Net Neutrality

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.” Raimondo in June, 2024.

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GOP Congress to Employ CRA: Blackburn

Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 12, 2024

“You will see this Congress use the Congressional Review Act, and sometimes you’re going to see executive actions,” she said at a Broadband Breakfast public policy event here on the communications agenda of the incoming Trump administration. Marsha Blackburn , R-Tenn., said Thursday.

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Advocates For Net Neutrality Appeal 6th Circuit Court Decision That FCC Won't

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.

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FCC Urges Judges Not to Follow Fifth Circuit in Striking Down Fines

Tech Think Tanks Fighting N.Y. Broadband Law in Supreme Court

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Net Neutrality Levels Pole Attachment Playing Field: INCOMPAS, CPUC

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

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

Court Pauses Challenge to FCC’s USF Forbearance Policy

Major Questions Does Not Apply to Net Neutrality: FCC

Joshua Levine: Getting the FACTs About Foreign Adversary Investment in Telecoms

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

California legislation would adopt definition of digital discrimination

If Trump Won, What Would Carr Do as FCC Chairman?

The (Likely) End of the FCC’s Long-Running Net Neutrality Saga

Sixth Circuit Tosses Net Neutrality

GOP Congress to Employ CRA: Blackburn

Advocates For Net Neutrality Appeal 6th Circuit Court Decision That FCC Won't

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