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Open Internet
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Beyond Telecom Law Blog
Open Internet Rules
By Communications and Technology Practice Group
On May 7, 2024, the FCC released a Declaratory Ruling reclassifying “broadband Internet access service” (“BIAS”) as a “telecommunications service” subject to the jurisdiction of the FCC under Title II…
Technology's Legal Edge
Ofcom consults on more liberal net neutrality guidance
By Mike Conradi, Coran Darling
On 21 October, Ofcom announced that it was revising its guidance on net neutrality. Otherwise referred to as ‘open internet’ net neutrality is the principle that users of the internet…
The Right Coast
How the FCC Can Save the Open Internet – WSJ
Encouraged by light-touch regulation, private companies invested over $1.5 trillion in nearly two decades to build out American communications networks. Without having to ask anyone s permission, innovators everywhere used…
Global Media and Communications Watch
Court of Appeals Upholds FCC’s Open Internet Order
In a major victory for the Federal Communications Commission’s democratic majority, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order on June 14,…
CommLaw Monitor
D.C. Circuit Upholds FCC’s Open Internet Rules
By Kelley Drye
In a 2-1 decision, the D.C. Circuit's Court of Appeals upheld the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC or Commission) 2015 Open Internet rules, which reclassified Broadband Internet Access Services (BIAS), including mobile…
Communications, Media & Entertainment
Facebook’s Trending Mess is Not a Legal Violation—But What about Open Internet?
There’s been plenty of buzz this week about Facebook’s reported “censoring” of conservative news and sites in their trending news section. And apparently that buzz has reached Capitol Hill. On…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Executive Order, Microsoft, Net Neutrality
Rising drug prices are everywhere, but nobody knows what to do about them. And with that we round out another week on LXBN. Happy weekend everyone; here's your top 10:…
Capital Thinking
FCC Approves AT&T’s Acquisition of DIRECTV with Conditions
Legislative Activity Senate Appropriations Committee Passes Bill That Would Decrease FCC’s Budget On Thursday, July 23, the Senate Committee on Appropriations (Senate Appropriations Committee) approved the Fiscal Year 2016 (FY16)…
Technology's Legal Edge
Net Neutrality, the EU “open internet” right and the new rule on internet access speeds
By Mike Conradi
I have expressed some strong views on the (lack of) merits of a specific net neutrality rule in the EU before (here and here). It was with interest then that…
CommLaw Monitor
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau Seeks Comment on the Open Internet Order’s Small Business Exemption
By Kelley Drye
On June 22, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission's (Commission) Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau (CGB) sought comments on the temporary small business exemption to the 2015 Open Internet Order's Enhanced Transparency Rule.…