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FCC Urges Judges Not to Follow Fifth Circuit in Striking Down Fines

Broadband Breakfast

APRIL 28, 2025

” The agency has maintained that the DOJ collection actions satisfy companies’ right to have a jury trial before any money is required to be paid – the carriers all paid their fines in order to appeal them.

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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

Federal Communications Commission with its proposed Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet rulemaking that would reclassify IP telecom as a common carrier utility under Title II of the Communications Act. [link] While the context here is California, this is the core issue before the U.S.

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Net Neutrality Levels Pole Attachment Playing Field: INCOMPAS, CPUC

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The Federal Communications Commission is currently trying to keep alive its net neutrality rules, which would reclassify broadband as a telecom service subject to common carrier regulations. Broadband trade associations challenging the move in court convinced a panel of the U.S.

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

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. Or which fails to confer clear rulemaking authority to an agency.

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Joshua Levine: Getting the FACTs About Foreign Adversary Investment in Telecoms

Broadband Breakfast

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In the short term, the Federal Communications Commission would be required within 120 days of enactment to publish a list of all entities that own a license for broadcasting or common carrier services obtained through a competitive bidding process in two circumstances.

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Court Pauses Challenge to FCC’s USF Forbearance Policy

Broadband Breakfast

AUGUST 12, 2024

billion Universal Service Fund, something that would normally have happened when the agency reclassified broadband providers as Title II common carriers. The Benton Institute for Broadband and Society and the Media Alliance challenged the FCC’s decision to abstain from tapping broadband revenue for its $8.1

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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. “These companies do not make or alter the food they deliver.” A three-judge panel of U.S.

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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

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. Both failed to establish clear, well thought out public policy to balance them.

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

Broadband Breakfast

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

At issue is the scope of state authority to regulate broadband ISPs after the FCC had classified them as lightly regulated information service providers under Title I of the Communications Act and not as heavily regulated common carriers under Title II of the same law. Amicus briefs in support of the N.Y.

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California legislation would adopt definition of digital discrimination

EldoTelecom

MARCH 19, 2024

Since IP telecom is currently classified as lightly regulated optional information service under Title I of the Communications Act and not as a common carrier utility, providers are free to deploy delivery infrastructure wherever they wish and at rates of their choosing.

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

Broadband Breakfast

OCTOBER 29, 2024

” Broadband Breakfast on October 30, 2024 - Tech and Telecom in Advance of the Next Administration An interactive town hall exploring the critical issues that will shape America’s digital future in the next presidential administration. Both rulemakings were challenged in court by the telecom industry.

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

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 9, 2025

Well, due to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s decision in Ohio Telecom Association v. Then, the Obama FCC, in a rulemaking proceeding, classified ISPs as telecommunications providers so they would be regulated as common carriers. FCC on January 2, the saga, mercifully, may be coming to an end.

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Sixth Circuit Tosses Net Neutrality

Broadband Breakfast

JANUARY 2, 2025

It’s the latest in the yearslong game of political ping pong over the policy, which would classify ISPs as common carriers under the Telecom Act and subject them to more expansive FCC oversight. ” The decision was unanimous among the three Republican-appointed judges who heard the case on Oct.

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GOP Congress to Employ CRA: Blackburn

Broadband Breakfast

DECEMBER 12, 2024

On the telecom front, that deadline would make Biden FCC rulemakings that drew the most Republican ire safe from CRA review, including, anti-digital discrimination rules, and updated data breach rules. The Congressional Research Service has estimated the so-called lookback period would go back to Aug.

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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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Telecommunications Trends

FCC Urges Judges Not to Follow Fifth Circuit in Striking Down Fines

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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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

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

Joshua Levine: Getting the FACTs About Foreign Adversary Investment in Telecoms

Court Pauses Challenge to FCC’s USF Forbearance Policy

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.

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

California legislation would adopt definition of digital discrimination

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

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

Sixth Circuit Tosses Net Neutrality

GOP Congress to Employ CRA: Blackburn

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

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