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.” Oral arguments are slated for March 26, with a ruling expected later this year.

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Telefrieden

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Bear in mind that the FCC, not the Federal Trade Commission, has consumer protection jurisdiction for so-called Title II regulated common carriers, including ventures offering pre-paid and post-paid wireless service. The phone is not free. and better yet, handsets “on the carrier.” To promote competition?

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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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