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

EldoTelecom

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. In the original version of the IIJA, it was: FTTP. That fell away in a subsequent amendment of the legislation.

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

EldoTelecom

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. But it left the door open to do so in the future.