FCC, Broadband Internet Access Services (BIAS)

FCC seeks comment on proposed security and reporting requirements for Border Gateway Protocol

Hogan Lovells on 7/9/2024

With new authority to regulate broadband internet access service (BIAS) providers following reclassification of BIAS as a Title II service under the Communications Act, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) advanced a...more

FCC Proposes New Internet Routing Security Rules for Telecoms

Perkins Coie on 6/25/2024

Building on its renewed jurisdictional authority over broadband internet access service (BIAS) providers following the reinstatement of net neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has adopted proposed internet...more

FCC’s Net Neutrality Redux: Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 6/7/2024

On May 7, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued its latest network neutrality order, Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet (the "Order"), which was published in the Federal Register on May 22, 2024,...more

FCC Announces Effective Date for Broadband Reclassification

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 5/27/2024

On May 22, 2024, a notice and summary of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) recent decision to reclassify broadband Internet access service (“BIAS”) as a Title II telecommunications service was published in the...more

FCC ‘Network Neutrality’ Order Shakes Up Broadband Privacy

Cooley LLP on 5/16/2024

As described in our May 8 client alert, most of the discussion regarding the new “network neutrality” order from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has focused on the FCC’s decision to reinstate rules the agency...more

FCC Reinstates ‘Network Neutrality’ Rules

Cooley LLP on 5/9/2024

After a closely divided vote, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released an order effectively reinstating the “network neutrality” rules it adopted in 2015. This decision reverses a 2017 order during the Trump...more

FCC Reinstates Net Neutrality Rules

Wiley Rein LLP on 5/9/2024

On May 7, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) released a Declaratory Ruling, Order, Report and Order, and Order on Reconsideration reclassifying broadband Internet access service (BIAS) as a common...more

With Net Neutrality Order, FCC Grants Broadband-Only ISPs New Pole Attachment Protections

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/7/2024

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted on April 25, 2024 to reinstate its net neutrality rules by reclassifying broadband internet access service (BIAS) as a “telecommunications service” under Title II of the...more

FCC Asserts Jurisdiction Over Property Owners to Enforce Ban on Digital Discrimination

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 3/14/2024

As part of the massive 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Congress directed the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to issue rules facilitating consumers’ “equal access” to broadband internet access...more

FCC Partners With States to Increase on Privacy and Data Protection Investigations, Signaling Increased Focus on Future...

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 12/11/2023

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced Thursday that in furtherance of the work of the agency’s Privacy and Data Protection Task Force, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau signed Memoranda of Understanding (“MOU”)...more

Wireless Roundup (December 2023)

Wiley Rein LLP on 12/1/2023

FCC Seeks Comment on Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet: In this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) proposes to reinstate the open Internet rules the...more

Update: FCC Adopts Digital Discrimination Rules in Party-Line Vote

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 11/27/2023

Key Points - On November 15, 2023, the FCC adopted rules aimed at preventing discrimination in access to broadband services. The FCC vote satisfies the Commission’s obligation under the IIJA, which requires the FCC to...more

FCC Revisits Net Neutrality, Extending Reach and Targeting National Security and Cybersecurity

Hogan Lovells on 10/31/2023

Last week the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing to reclassify broadband internet access service (BIAS) as a Title II common carrier service and reinstate net neutrality...more

In Latest Net Neutrality Proceeding, the FCC Proposes Reclassifying Broadband Internet Access as a Telecommunications Service,...

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 10/24/2023

If adopted, the FCC will have expanded authority to regulate Broadband Internet Access. The FCC is not proposing to regulate rates, but it would have authority to review changes in ownership, as well as jurisdiction to rule...more

FCC Announces Upcoming Release of National Broadband Map; BEAD Program Allocations to Follow

Wiley Rein LLP on 11/11/2022

On November 10, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that it will release a preliminary “pre-production” draft of its national broadband map on November 18, 2022....more

FCC Posts Draft NOI on Preventing Digital Discrimination

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck on 2/28/2022

On Feb. 23, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published a draft Notice of Inquiry (NOI) that would seek comment on how to prevent and eliminate discrimination of broadband access as directed by Congress in the...more

FCC adopts new regulation of telecommunications in multi-tenant environments

Hogan Lovells on 2/22/2022

Recent developments from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) signal a renewed focus on leveraging the blunt instrument of regulation to spur telecommunications competition in apartment buildings, shopping malls, and...more

FCC Proposes Broadband “Nutrition” Label Requirement - UPDATED February 2022

Wiley Rein LLP on 2/7/2022

*This alert was originally published on January 28, 2022 and updated on February 4, 2022. On January 27, 2022, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC or Commission) moved to implement a provision of the bipartisan...more

FCC Proposes Broadband “Nutrition” Label Requirement

Wiley Rein LLP on 1/31/2022

On January 27, 2022, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC or Commission) moved to implement a provision of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act by adopting a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that...more

Latest COVID-19 Relief and Government Funding Package Includes Key Communications Provisions

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 1/8/2021

The $2.3 trillion COVID-19 relief and government funding package includes $7 billion in funding for broadband programs, as well as reforms to the PPP program to expand television and radio station eligibility. Overall, the...more

AT&T To Pay $60M to Settle 2014 FTC Data Throttling Complaint

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 11/12/2019

After a long road that included questions over the scope of FTC and FCC jurisdiction, AT&T finally settled one of two cases challenging the unlimited data plans it offered to consumers. On Tuesday, November 5, 2019 the...more

DOJ Sues California Hours After Governor Signs the Nation’s Toughest Net Neutrality Rules into Law

Womble Bond Dickinson on 10/4/2018

As we previously reported, the California legislature approved one of the nation’s toughest net neutrality laws – California Internet Consumer Protection and Net Neutrality Act of 2018, also known as SB 822. This past...more

Net Neutrality Showdown Scheduled for February 1st

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP on 9/25/2018

In an event sure to garner significant attention from tech, consumer protection, and government stakeholders, oral argument on the consolidated appeals of the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order (“Order”) will take place...more

A State of Defiance: California Senate Passes Country’s Toughest Net Neutrality Law After Obama-Era Net Neutrality Regulations Are...

Womble Bond Dickinson on 9/5/2018

EDITOR’S NOTE: NET NEUTRALITY IS NOT THE TCPA BUT IT EFFECTS EVERYONE. GIVEN OUR TEAM’S EXPERIENCE WITH TELECOM AND TECHNOLOGY LAW AND REGULATION–AND GIVEN THAT WE ARE LOCATED IN CALIFORNIA– WE’LL BE KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON...more

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BakerHostetler on 3/26/2018

In This Issue: - Court Limits 2015 Text Marketing Rules, Gives New FCC an Opportunity to Provide Clarity - Washington State Passes Net Neutrality Protection Law - Dr. Brew Kombucha Steeped in Probiotic Class Action? -...more

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