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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 on Thursday to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and reassume regulatory oversight of broadband internet rescinded ...
October 31, 2024 at 12:48 PM. ... judges signaled skepticism on Thursday over whether the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has the authority to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules, a ...
As with the original net neutrality rules, the 2024 version reclassifies broadband as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act of 1996, giving the FCC regulatory ...
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote to reinstate landmark net neutrality rules and assume new regulatory oversight of broadband internet that was rescinded under former President ...
On 25 April 2024, the FCC voted 3–2 to reinstate net neutrality in the United States by reclassifying the Internet under Title II. [13] However, legal challenges filed by ISPs resulted in an appeals court order that stays the net neutrality rules until the court makes a final ruling, with the court opining that the ISPs are likely to prevail ...
The decision leaves in place state neutrality rules adopted by California and others but may end more than 20 years of efforts to give federal regulators sweeping oversight over the internet.
Net neutrality rules were repealed in the US in 2017 during the Trump administration and subsequent appeals upheld the ruling, [73] until the FCC voted to reinstate them in 2024. [74] In 2025, on January 2nd, however, "a US appeals court on Thursday ruled the Federal Communications Commission did not have the legal authority to reinstate ...
The ideas underlying net neutrality have a long pedigree in telecommunications practice and regulation. Services such as telegrams and the phone network (officially, the public switched telephone network or PSTN) have been considered common carriers under U.S. law since the Mann–Elkins Act of 1910, which means that they have been akin to public utilities and expressly forbidden to give ...