Brendan Carr, newly installed as chairman of the FCC under the new Trump administration, is reviving a trio of complaints aimed at NBC, ABC and CBS content, ones that his predecessor dismissed for ...
That’s because he authored the FCC chapter of the Heritage Foundation’s wishlist for a Donald Trump presidency. In that chapter, Carr proposes actions including: limiting immunity for tech ...
The FCC‘s effort to establish rules of the road for internet service has been sidelined again, as a federal appeals court has blocked the latest version of net neutrality regulations.
On Thursday, a three-judge panel struck down net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had hoped would stop broadband providers from varying speeds for users when ...
In a statement, outgoing FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel said the commission was rejecting complaints that “seek to weaponize the licensing authority of the FCC in a way that is fundamentally at ...
This ruling significantly curtailed the FCC's ability to implement and enforce net neutrality regulations. Net neutrality, a principle that advocates for equal treatment of all internet traffic ...
The three-judge panel, consisting of Judges Griffin, Kethledge, and Bush, concluded that the FCC's regulation was inconsistent with the statutory text of the Telecommunications Act. Here is how ...
The FCC had sought to reinstate a sweeping policy established under President Obama that was designed to treat internet service as an essential public service, similar to a water or power utility.
More Mandel Ngan/Getty Images The FCC introduced net-neutrality rules under President Barack Obama's administration but those rules were scrapped by President Donald Trump in 2017. President Joe ...
A federal appeals court ruled this week the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) lacked the authority to restore certain net neutrality rules last year, handing a blow to FCC Democrats and ...
In a published opinion, the appellate court in the state of Ohio said an order last year by the Federal Communications Commission "resurrected the FCC's heavy-handed regulatory regime." ...
Credit an assist from the Supreme Court. Democrats on the FCC last year resurrected the Obama-era regulation that classified broadband providers as common carriers under Title II of the 1934 ...