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

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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Investor owned telephone and cable companies and their trade associations hope the courts will put the U.S. In so providing this telecommunications service, the Act states providers “shall be treated as a common carrier” (i.e.

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FCC reclassification of Internet access as Title II utility likely to have little impact on affordability

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Federal Communications Commission votes to reclassify Internet access as a common carrier utility under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 as expected April 25, it’s unlikely to increase affordable access. When the U.S. 202 , titled Discrimination and Preferences.

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States must designate providers, service areas under FCC reclassification of Internet delivered services as telecommunications utility.

EldoTelecom

In the case of an area served by a rural telephone company, “service area” means such company’s “study area” unless and until the Commission and the States, after taking into account recommendations of a Federal-State Joint Board instituted under section 410(c) of this title , establish a different definition of service area for such company.

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Does the Supreme Court Conservative Majority Want to Prevent Regulatory Agencies from Responding to Technological Innovation and Changed Circumstances?

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

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Upcoming Limits on FCC Statutory Interpretations Unless It Deregulates

Telefrieden

In a Declaratory Ruling, the FCC asked and answered whether it should shift its classification of texting from “old school” basic, common carrier telecommunications to something advanced and largely unregulatable information processing. 12075 (2018); available at: [link].

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Network Neutrality Redux and the Return of Falsehoods and Disinformation

Telefrieden

Our wireless handsets offer basic plain old telephone service, texting, which used to be a legacy telecommunications service, and other services that combine data processing/information services with telecommunications carriage. This sure looks like overreaching, legislating by unelected bureaucrats so reviled by the right. Lastly (I hope!),

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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. The expectation of that bargain was expressed as public policy in the Telecommunications Act of 1996.