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Still a Long Road for Universal Service Reform, Panelists Say

Broadband Breakfast

MARCH 13, 2025

” The roughly $8 billion-per-year program supports building and maintaining rural networks, plus internet and phone discounts for low-income households, schools and libraries, and health care centers. That takes at least a year.” Mattey has also authored a report arguing that’s the way to go.

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Lutnick’s right. Americans aren’t getting the benefit of the bargain -- of universal service.

EldoTelecom

JUNE 11, 2025

However, Americans have never gotten the real benefit of the bargain: universal service of Internet protocol-based advanced telecommunications delivered by landline like voice telephone service before it. The expectation of that bargain was expressed as public policy in the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

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Carr Eliminates Already Defunct Net Neutrality Regulations

Broadband Breakfast

JULY 14, 2025

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced Friday that the agency was removing 41 rules or requirements, totaling 2,991 words “concerning utility-style burdens on the Internet adopted under the Biden Administration.”

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

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.

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Net Neutrality Levels Pole Attachment Playing Field: INCOMPAS, CPUC

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

But one trade group for Internet Service Providers and state officials told judges Wednesday it comes with at least one big benefit: backup from the government in negotiations with utility pole owners. WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2024 – Broadband providers want to avoid net neutrality because it comes with more expansive federal oversight.

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Cable, Chamber of Commerce Ask SCOTUS to Toss N.Y. Broadband Law

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

16, 2024 – Broadband ISPs have a request for the highest court in the land: Don't let the 50 states set the retail price of Internet access. Net neutrality rules would make ISPs Title II common carriers under the Communications Act, subject to more oversight from the FCC. WASHINGTON, Sept. Chamber of Commerce agree.

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Consumer Groups Looking to Pause Narrow Legal Challenge to Net Neutrality

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.

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

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

It seeks “to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market … for the Internet … unfettered by Federal or State regulation.” Tech Freedom is a non-profit focused on issues of Internet freedom and technological progress. Chamber of Commerce , and the Multicultural Media, Telecom, and Internet Council.

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FCC reclassification of Internet access as Title II utility likely to have little impact on affordability

EldoTelecom

APRIL 9, 2024

Federal Communications Commission votes to reclassify Internet access as a common carrier utility under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 as expected April 25, it’s unlikely to increase affordable access. When the U.S. 202 , titled Discrimination and Preferences.

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In a Changed Legal Landscape, the FCC Should Reconsider Net Neutrality Rules

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.

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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. WASHINGTON, August 12, 2024 – The U.S.

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

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."

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Industry opposition to FCC Title II rules could lead to state-based regulation

EldoTelecom

JUNE 21, 2024

States could respond by enacting their own statutes treating advanced telecommunications as a common carrier utility, imposing universal service mandates barring neighborhood redlining and imposing rate regulation in order to ensure access and affordability and promote digital equity. But in opposing the U.S. Supreme Court.

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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. The transmitted content isn’t changed; it’s communicated over the Internet to one or more parties. They believe their case has been strengthened by the U.S. So would posting to a website or social media site.

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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.

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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

In the fourth decade since telecommunications began to shift to Internet protocol-based technologies, about half the connections to U.S. For analog voice telecommunications, public policy is to regulate them as common carrier utilities under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure widespread, affordable access.

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

Telefrieden

APRIL 26, 2024

Having done so previously, the FCC recently restored the application of Title II telecommunications service, common carrier to Internet access. Does it also foreclose actions by both Democratic and Republican majorities to alter a regulatory regime by changing what Communications Act Title applies? link] , ¶153-186.

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Network Neutrality Redux and the Return of Falsehoods and Disinformation

Telefrieden

OCTOBER 20, 2023

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. 1, 47-87 (2015); [link]. This sure looks like overreaching, legislating by unelected bureaucrats so reviled by the right.

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Upcoming Limits on FCC Statutory Interpretations Unless It Deregulates

Telefrieden

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Heretofore, no one has questioned the lawfulness of the FCC’s determination that this undefined category includes broadband, Internet access. The legislature did not define “advanced telecommunications capability.” See Petitions for Declaratory Ruling on Regulatory Status of Wireless Messaging Service, Declaratory Ruling, 33 FCC Rcd.

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Court Orders ISPs, FCC to Argue Net Neutrality on Halloween

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. 31, 2024 at 8:30 a.m. ET.

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Law Prof van Schewick Calls Net Neutrality Ruling 'a Radical Decision’

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. He implied he would roll back other rules instituted by the FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel.

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Free Market Think Tanks Back ISPs in Net Neutrality Challenge

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

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

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.

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

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Broadband Breakfast Broadband Breakfast New broadband deployment rules Both parties at the FCC have sought to ease Internet Service Provider access to utility poles and speed up that permitting process, but the changes to local government approvals would be a departure from the current FCC.

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Court Nullifies FCC’s Net Neutrality, Future Awaits Congress

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.

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Sixth Circuit Tosses Net Neutrality

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 2, 2025

The Cincinnati-based court said the FCC misread the 1996 Telecommunications Act, arguing it required the agency to keep broadband Internet Service Providers lightly regulated. The agency moved to reinstitute the rules in April 2024, and broadband providers convinced the Sixth Circuit to pause the order in August. ” Sen.

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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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End of ACP could bring modfication of FCC Title II rulemaking to allow regulation of residential Internet services

EldoTelecom

MAY 12, 2024

The end of the Affordable Connectivity Act (ACP) sets the stage for the potential modification of the Federal Communication Commission’s recently adopted rulemaking classifying Internet protocol-based services as a common carrier utility under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934.

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Sixth Circuit Denies Rehearing in Net Neutrality Challenge

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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Telecommunications Trends

Still a Long Road for Universal Service Reform, Panelists Say

Lutnick’s right. Americans aren’t getting the benefit of the bargain -- of universal service.

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Carr Eliminates Already Defunct Net Neutrality Regulations

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

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

Net Neutrality Levels Pole Attachment Playing Field: INCOMPAS, CPUC

Cable, Chamber of Commerce Ask SCOTUS to Toss N.Y. Broadband Law

Consumer Groups Looking to Pause Narrow Legal Challenge to Net Neutrality

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

FCC reclassification of Internet access as Title II utility likely to have little impact on affordability

In a Changed Legal Landscape, the FCC Should Reconsider Net Neutrality Rules

Court Pauses Challenge to FCC’s USF Forbearance Policy

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

Industry opposition to FCC Title II rules could lead to state-based regulation

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

Major Questions Does Not Apply to Net Neutrality: FCC

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

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

Network Neutrality Redux and the Return of Falsehoods and Disinformation

Upcoming Limits on FCC Statutory Interpretations Unless It Deregulates

Court Orders ISPs, FCC to Argue Net Neutrality on Halloween

Law Prof van Schewick Calls Net Neutrality Ruling 'a Radical Decision’

Free Market Think Tanks Back ISPs in Net Neutrality Challenge

California legislation would adopt definition of digital discrimination

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

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

Court Nullifies FCC’s Net Neutrality, Future Awaits Congress

Sixth Circuit Tosses Net Neutrality

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

End of ACP could bring modfication of FCC Title II rulemaking to allow regulation of residential Internet services

Sixth Circuit Denies Rehearing in Net Neutrality Challenge

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