GOP Holds Show Hearing To Complain About Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People

Over the next six months, states are poised to receive more than $42.5 billion in taxpayer subsidies to help fund broadband rollouts around the country. A lot of this money is getting dumped into t…

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Press Happily Parrots Verizon’s Claim That Its $20 Billion Purchase Of Frontier Will Be A Huge Boon To Consumers | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/06/press-happily-parrots-verizons-claim-that-its-20-billion-purchase-of-frontier-will-be-a-huge-boon-to-consumers/

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Press Happily Parrots Verizon’s Claim That Its $20 Billion Purchase Of Frontier Will Be A Huge Boon To Consumers

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a major U.S. regional telecom monopoly is looking to buy another major U.S. regional telecom monopoly in a massive transaction that both companies ins…

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Big Telecom Asks The Corrupt Supreme Court To Declare All State And Federal Broadband Consumer Protection Illegal. They Might Get Their Wish. | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/19/big-telecom-asks-the-corrupt-supreme-court-to-declare-all-state-and-federal-broadband-consumer-protection-illegal-they-might-get-their-wish/

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Big Telecom Asks The Corrupt Supreme Court To Declare All State And Federal Broadband Consumer Protection Illegal. They Might Get Their Wish.

As we recently noted, telecom giants like AT&T and Comcast are having some very good luck using a corrupt, MAGA-heavy court to not only kill popular net neutrality rules — but to effectiv…

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6th Circuit Temporarily Puts Net Neutrality On Ice As The Post-Chevron GOP Assault On The Regulatory State Accelerates

We recently noted how the telecom industry, with the help of the recent Chevron ruling, was gearing up to deliver what it hoped would be the killing blow to popular net neutrality protections (read…

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Big Telecom Will Soon Get $42 BIllion In Taxpayer Subsidies, But Balk At Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People

Broadband providers poised to receive $42 billion in taxpayer broadband subsidies from the infrastructure bill are ramping up complaints about a small requirement affixed to the massive handout: th…

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Deeply Unserious 5th Circuit Declares $8 Billion Rural FCC Broadband Subsidy Program ‘Unconstitutional’ | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/29/deeply-unserious-5th-circuit-declares-8-billion-rural-fcc-broadband-subsidy-program-unconstitutional/

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Deeply Unserious 5th Circuit Declares $8 Billion Rural FCC Broadband Subsidy Program ‘Unconstitutional’

The FCC has long run an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools called the Universal Service Fund. The bipartisan program has…

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GOP ‘Investigates’ NTIA For Wanting To Make Broadband Affordable To Poor People

We’ve noted a few times that states will soon receive more than $42.5 billion in taxpayer funded broadband subsidies courtesy of the 2021 infrastructure bill. A lot of that money will go to b…

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Big Telecom Prepares For The Final Killing Blow Against Net Neutrality

Back in April the Biden FCC once again voted along party lines to restore net neutrality rules stripped away by the Trump FCC in a flurry of sleazy industry behavior that included using f…

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Big Telecom Eyes More Broadband Usage Caps (And A Tax On Big Tech) As Revenues Sag

Things aren’t too exciting if you’re a telecom executive right now. All the hype in tech is singularly fixated on the more headline catching, stock fluffing, and usually very broken asp…

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California Says AT&T Can’t Just Hang Up On Unwanted, Taxpayer Funded Copper DSL And Phone Connections | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/07/03/california-says-att-cant-just-hang-up-on-unwanted-taxpayer-funded-copper-dsl-and-phone-connections/

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California Says AT&T Can’t Just Hang Up On Unwanted, Taxpayer Funded Copper DSL And Phone Connections

Four years years ago AT&T, a company that for years cheapened out on upgrading its broadband lines to fiber, effectively stopped selling DSL. While that’s understandable given the limitations o…

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