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FCC’s Pai Proposes ‘Gigabit Opportunity Zones’
Other Reforms Would Ease Broadband Deployment, Bridge Digital Divide WASHINGTON — Today, Ajit Pai, a Republican Commissioner for the Federal Communications Commission, laid out a broad “Digital Empowerment Agenda” — specific measures Congress, the FCC, and state and local governments could take to help bridge the digital divide. Pai proposed suggesting “Gigabit Opportunity Zones” in low-income communities willing to make broadband deployment easy, where Congress ...
July 13, 2022
Press Release
Clean-up on Aisle Net Neutrality: FCC to Adopt Order on Mozilla Remand
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, FCC Chairman Pai blogged that the FCC will take up at its October 2020 open meeting an order dealing with the issues remanded by the Mozilla court, which largely affirmed the agency’s 2018 Restoring Internet Freedom Order (RIFO). TechFreedom filed comments and reply comments with the FCC regarding the Mozilla court’s narrow remand of discrete issues. Chairman Pai’s blog echoes our comments explaining why the FCC has ...
James Dunstan
October 5, 2020
Press Release
Commenters Have Not Explained Why RIFO Affected Public Safety, Lifeline or Pole Attachments
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, TechFreedom filed reply comments with the FCC regarding the Mozilla court’s narrow remand of discrete issues in the Restoring Internet Freedom Order (RIFO), in the latest round of the net neutrality debate. As in the comments we filed a month ago, TechFreedom explained why the FCC will have little difficulty in addressing the three issues remanded to the FCC: public safety, the Lifeline program, and pole attachments. TechFreedom’s General ...
James Dunstan
May 20, 2020
Press Release
TechFreedom Files in Amicus in the Latest Net Neutrality Litigation
Today, TechFreedom filed an amicus curiae brief opposing legal challenges to the Restoring Internet Freedom Order approved by the FCC late last year. Petitioners have asked the D.C. Circuit to reinstate the broad claims of power to regulate Internet services made by the FCC in 2015 and 2010. TechFreedom has consistently opposed these claims, representing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) pioneers as Intervenors in challenging the 2015 rules on the constitutional grounds cited by then-Judge ...
Berin Szóka
October 18, 2018
Letter
CRA Resolutions Cannot Legally Protect Net Neutrality
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, TechFreedom sent a letter to Congressional leadership and Members who have co-sponsored resolutions of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act intended to reverse the FCC’s 2017 Restoring Internet Freedom Order (RIFO), urging them to reconsider forcing a vote on these resolutions. Sponsors of the resolutions believe they will restore the Democratic FCC’s 2015 reclassification of broadband Internet access services (BIAS) as common carrier services ...
May 14, 2018
Podcast
The Future of Internet Regulation
Today we discuss the end of net neutrality....or do we? Under the leadership of Chairman Ajit Pai, the FCC is set to undo broad claims on power over the Internet made in 2010 and 2015. That will also mean rolling back most – but not all – of the FCC's broadband rules. What is Pai planning to change, and what does he see as the future of Internet regulation? Is net neutrality really dying, or just changing? What difference will this make for consumers? We discuss these issues and more with our ...
November 22, 2017
Article
SCOTUS Should Stop Last FCC’s Power Grab
TECHFREEDOM FILES PETITION FOR CERT IN CASE AGAINST TITLE II WASHINGTON D.C. — Yesterday, TechFreedom and three leading VoIP pioneers asked the Supreme Court to block the FCC’s sweeping claims of power over the Internet. Our petition for certiorari repeated the argument we alone have made at every step of this litigation: that whether to impose heavy-handed common carriage regulation on the Internet is a “major question” that can only be decided by Congress. “This case ...
September 29, 2017
Article
FCC Should Pave the Way for Net Neutrality Legislation
WASHINGTON D.C. — Yesterday, TechFreedom filed comments urging the Federal Communications Commission to (a) reverse its claims of sweeping powers to regulate the Internet, (b) repeal the 2015 Open Internet Order, leaving in place only the transparency rule, which can be grounded in uncontroversial authority and which will help the FTC police the broadband market on its own, and (c) begin working with FTC and Congress to craft legislation to provide a lasting solution to the net neutrality ...
August 31, 2017
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