EldoTelecom

JULY 11, 2024

They hope to convince the courts the FCC lacked authority to issue the rulemaking classifying Internet protocol-based services -- advanced telecommunications – as a common carrier telecom utility service under Title II of the Communications Act. The problem is doesn't meet any of these tests.

Common Carrier

EldoTelecom

JUNE 21, 2024

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Advanced telecommunications providers favor a federal regulatory scheme over disparate state by state regulation, correctly arguing that telecommunications is essentially interstate. But in opposing the U.S. Follow on Twitter @eldotelecom

Common Carrier

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. 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.

Common Carrier

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Brief of Tech Freedom and Others The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is a deregulatory statute. As part of this deregulatory policy, the 1996 Act establishes a light-touch regulatory scheme for Title I information services—in contrast to more heavily regulated Title II telecommunications services. WASHINGTON, Sept.

Broadband

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Cyber attacks on US telecommunications networks , government agencies , and western allies have been met by calls to improve security and close potential entry points for bad actors. To boost our telecommunications security, we should heed the phrase: “follow the money.” Joshua Levine is a Research Fellow at FAI.

Telecoms

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

and Ian Heath Gershengorn argued that any unilateral attempt by the Commission to treat broadband internet access service (BIAS) as a common carrier service under Title II of the  Communications Act of 1934  would be a “wasted effort.” Verrilli Jr.

Common Carrier

Telefrieden

APRIL 29, 2024

Despite all the speculation about pending foreclosure of regulatory agency discretion, there is a provision in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that the Court might deem sufficiently clear to withstand the major question and ambiguity roadblocks: 47 U.S. Code § 160 - Competition in provision of telecommunications service. See [link].

Provisioning

Telefrieden

APRIL 26, 2024

Having done so previously, the FCC recently restored the application of Title II telecommunications service, common carrier to Internet access. See MCI Telecommunications Corp. link] , ¶153-186. American Telephone & Telegraph Co., 218 (1994); [link].

Common Carrier

Telefrieden

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Lacking humility and common sense, the Court appears hellbent to outlaw statutory interpretation like what kinds of services fit within the following ambiguous words Congress crafted, circa 1996: “advanced telecommunications capability.” 1302(a), codified by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub. 104-104, 110 Stat.

Telecommunication

Telefrieden

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The Democratic majority has clearly exempted broadband internet access from Title II common rate regulation. By the way, Title II still explicitly applies to wireless telecommunications, like cellphone service, and no one can credibly claim that carriers are severely constrained by overpowering FCC oversight.

Network

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. Why would a facilities-based carrier pay over $ 1 billion to acquire a reseller of the carrier’s network?

Common Carrier

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.

Common Carrier

EldoTelecom

MARCH 19, 2024

The FCC’s Preventing Digital Discrimination rulemaking is predicated on the notion that business decisions on where to deploy infrastructure and offer advanced telecommunications services can disadvantage households based on these demographic factors, even if not intentional. A location may be serviceable.

Common Carrier

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

In its  National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. This classification is consequential, of course, because “telecommunications service” providers, as common carriers, are regulated in a heavy-handed public utility like fashion while “information service” providers are lightly regulated.

Common Carrier

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Carr actually outlined his priorities for broadband and telecommunications policy in a chapter of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 policy agenda. WASHINGTON, Oct. What would he do if Trump won, and if Carr were selected for the job? He has made clear in public statements, though, that he opposes them.

Broadband

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. Bush argued that broadband is an “information service,” not a “telecommunications service” as the FCC had claimed.

Common Carrier

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. But they do not transform the categorization of telephone service because its core standalone offering is the transparent transmission of telecommunications.”

Internet

Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 12, 2024

“We will take a look at what have been misguided telecommunications policies” and policies that “did not deliver.”   It would seem to also insulate the agency’s net neutrality order, which reclassified broadband providers as common carriers and was published in the federal register this past spring.

Common Carrier

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.

Common Carrier

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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