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

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APRIL 28, 2025

WASHINGTON, April 28, 2025 – After the Fifth Circuit invalidated a $57 million penalty against AT&T, the Federal Communications Commission is urging other courts not to toss nearly $140 million in fines against Verizon and T-Mobile.

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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

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

EldoTelecom

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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Net Neutrality Levels Pole Attachment Playing Field: INCOMPAS, CPUC

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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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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.

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

EldoTelecom

JULY 11, 2024

Federal Communications Commission’s recently issued Open Internet rulemaking on ice, slated to become effective July 22. That would conceivably bolster their case if the underlying statute here – the 1996 Telecom Act – was unclear or ambiguous or failed to grant the FCC authority for its rules.

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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. Consumer groups and advocates said those fears were unfounded during the rulemaking process.

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

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

For almost twenty years, the Federal Communications Commission adhered to Congress’s deregulatory directive, correctly classifying broadband as a Title I service. Chamber of Commerce , and the Multicultural Media, Telecom, and Internet Council. Available to Breakfast Club Members A panel of the U.S. Signed into law by Gov.

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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. 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.

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California legislation would adopt definition of digital discrimination

EldoTelecom

MARCH 19, 2024

That mirrors the Federal Communications Commission’s Preventing Digital Discrimination rulemaking adopted in November as mandated by section 60506 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (IIJA).

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

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 29, 2024

” Broadband Breakfast on October 30, 2024 - Tech and Telecom in Advance of the Next Administration An interactive town hall exploring the critical issues that will shape America’s digital future in the next presidential administration. Both rulemakings were challenged in court by the telecom industry.

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

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

There’s probably not a communications or administrative lawyer or scholar alive today who is not familiar with the decades-old “net neutrality” saga. Well, due to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Ohio Telecom Association v.

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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.

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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. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2, 2025 – A panel of the U.S.

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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. WASHINGTON, Feb.

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

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

Trending Sources

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

Net Neutrality Levels Pole Attachment Playing Field: INCOMPAS, CPUC

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

Major Questions Does Not Apply to Net Neutrality: FCC

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

Court Pauses Challenge to FCC’s USF Forbearance Policy

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

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

GOP Congress to Employ CRA: Blackburn

Sixth Circuit Tosses Net Neutrality

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

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