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President Biden’s recent “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy” (Order) promotes fair competition regulations across a diverse group of key U.S. industries, including telecom, technology, banking and finance, and agriculture. The Order includes 72 separate initiatives involving more than a dozen federal agencies.
This update discusses three provisions of the Order likely to have significant effects on the telecom and related tech industry.
First, the Order calls for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reinstate the Obama-era net neutrality rules repealed during the Trump administration. If reinstated, these rules would prohibit Broadband Internet Access Service (BIAS) providers from impairing internet service by throttling speeds or blocking access to online services or websites.
by Tech Freedom April 15, 2021 .
Editor’s note: TechFreedom is a non-profit, non-partisan technology policy think tank. We work to chart a path forward for policymakers towards a bright future where technology enhances freedom, and freedom enhances technology.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – TechFreedom [has] filed an
amicus brief urging the Ninth Circuit to reverse an order allowing California’s new net neutrality law to go into effect.
In its 2018
Restoring Internet Freedom order, the FCC rolled back its 2015 net neutrality order, and returned Broadband Internet Access Service to being a lightly regulated “information service” under Title I of the Communications Act. Soon thereafter, California passed a net neutrality law of its own, one that in some ways matches the FCC’s 2015 Order. Earlier this year, a federal trial court rejected a group of broadband providers’ argument that the California law is preempted by the FCC’s 2018 order.
Friday, February 19, 2021
The 31.8% Universal Service Fund (USF) contribution factor for 1
st Quarter 2021 and the ascendency of broadband to that of an essential service for our Nation’s citizens during the Covid-19 pandemic may prove to be the tipping point on USF contribution reform. The multi-year funding commitments under several USF-funded programs underscore the need for reform, as noted in recent article in
This blog entry assumes USF programs will retain a major role in supporting broadband availability and affordability for unserved and underserved communities and individuals, including possible expansion of the E-rate program to support broadband service for students of low-income families lacking broadband connectivity. Funding from other programs such as those administered by the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and those enacted by Congress in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations A
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January 29, 2021
Massachusetts State Reps. Andres X. Vargas (D-Essex) and David M. Rogers (D-Middlesex) filed Bill HD 663, entitled “An Act Protecting Internet Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” on Wednesday which seeks to stop data caps, price increases, new fees, and service shutoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic in response to Comcast imposing data caps in the state. As of the time of publication, the bill had 36 additional cosponsors.
Approximately 70 Massachusetts lawmakers urged the company to abandon this plan and reconsider any future plans to impose a data cap.
The bill states that during the COVID-19 pandemic emergency and 60 days after, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are prohibited from: “increase(ing) the cost of any Broadband Internet Access Services upon their subscribers”; “levy(ing) any new fees or charges related to Broadband Internet Access Services upon their subscribers”; “impos(ing) new data caps or allowances onto their