mrbueno
join:2002-08-03
US
| reply to GPershing
Re: It's not regulated!
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The FCC has affirmatively rules that Internet over Broadband is an information service and therefore not a telephone carrier. Again, this preempts the states and prevents the states from regulating internet providers as common carriers.
Internet providers are not common carriers and as such are not a regulated industry. The FCC is not the Internet policing authority. Not yet anyway. Just because they are handing out orders doesn't mean they are properly authorized to do so, yet. A legal challenge to this has never been filed so it's more or less up in the air until then. Once that authority is challenged I am sure they will clearly be placed in charge.
The designation of information service often exists to indicate that a service is not subject to regulation via telecommunications laws and regulations. Not subject to regulation.
Look up the Brand-X case for more info. |
