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

EldoTelecom

The infrastructure to deliver it isn’t specified in this “technology neural” policy. 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. See earlier blog post here ).

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

Broadband Breakfast

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

Broadband Breakfast

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. ” 47 U.S.C. §§ §§ 230(b)(2), 230(f)(2).

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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

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

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

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. 1, 47-87 (2015); [link].

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Upcoming Limits on FCC Statutory Interpretations Unless It Deregulates

Telefrieden

The activist, results-driven Supreme Court appears ready to limit severely the ability of the Federal Communications Commission and other independent regulatory agencies to interpret ambiguous statutory language and answer essential questions about statutory meaning, even when vastly changing markets and technologies makes such work essential.