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Anonymous Coward User ID: 58351617 United States 03/12/2015 12:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | #544 "When engaged in broadband Internet access services, broadband providers are not speakers, but rather serve as conduits for the speech of others. The manner in which broadband providers operate their networks does not rise to the level of speech protected by the First Amendment." And since it is not an issue of Free Speech, the government can require service providers to disclose all kinds of information... #560 "CenturyLink contends that the disclosure requirements under the transparency rule violate the First Amendment by compelling speech without a reasonable basis.1723 They argue that the Commission has not established a potential problem which these disclosures are necessary to remedy and that this is fatal to the rules under the First Amendment. This argument misapprehends both the factual justification for the transparency rules and the constitutional legal standard against which any disclosure requirements would be evaluated by the courts. " |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 54270290 United States 03/12/2015 02:07 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 554. A content-neutral regulation will survive intermediate scrutiny if “it furthers an important or substantial government interest . . . unrelated to the suppression of free expression,” and if “the means chosen” to achieve that interest “do not burden substantially more speech than is necessary.”1712 The government interests underlying this Order are clear and numerous. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 7195345 United States 03/12/2015 02:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Let's try and organize and read this massive 400 page set of rules and regulations. Quoting: cletus_jones [link to transition.fcc.gov] You start at the top, I'll start at the bottom. Anyone got middle down and middle up? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 58351617 United States 03/12/2015 02:21 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | New Fees... #81 Among the costs that consumers may experience are: high upfront device installation fees; long-term contracts and early termination fees; the activation fee when changing service providers #99 Switching costs may arise due to a number of factors that affect mobile consumers. #528 Bullet 5 the classification of broadband Internet access service as a telecommunications service could trigger certain contributions to support mechanisms or fee payment requirements under the Act and Commission rules Page 325 New Broadband Taxes.—One avenue for higher bills is the new taxes and fees that will be applied to broadband. Here’s the background. If you look at your phone bill, you’ll see a “Universal Service Fee,” or something like it. These fees (what most Americans would call taxes) are paid by Americans on their telephone service and funnel about $9 billion each year through the FCC—all outside the congressional appropriations process. Consumers haven’t had to pay these taxes on their broadband bills because broadband Internet access service has never before been a Title II service. But now it is. And so the Order explicitly opens the door to billions of dollars in new taxes on broadband. As the Order frankly acknowledges, Title II “authorizes the Commission to impose universal service contributions requirements on telecommunications carriers—and, indeed, goes even further to require ‘[e]very telecommunications carrier that provides interstate telecommunications services’ to contribute.”36 And so the FCC now has a statutory obligation to make sure that all Internet service providers (and in the end, their customers) contribute to the Universal Service Fund. Page 329 reclassification will expose many small companies to higher state and local taxes. Tax rates on telecommunications companies are often significantly higher than those imposed on general businesses, and so reclassification threatens Internet service providers with property tax hikes, new transaction-based taxes and fees, and greater income, franchising, and gross receipts taxes.56 And these tax hikes won’t necessarily be de minimis. In the District of Columbia, for instance, companies will face an instant 11% increase in taxes on their gross receipts. 57 That big bite will leave a welt on Washington consumers’ wallets. broadband taxes like those imposed by the Order have evaded the scope of the Internet Tax Freedom Act so far—because they are “fees,” not “taxes,” and because they’re not exclusively about “Internet access” but more generally applied.59 And since Congress has not entrusted the Commission with interpreting the Internet Tax Freedom Act, even our most fervent pronouncements for it to be broader will not make it so. All of these new fees and costs add up. One estimate puts the total at $11 billion a year.60 page 400 the Commission claims that this item does not require broadband providers to contribute to the federal universal service fund at this time. But that’s because it defers that decision to a pending proceeding which is likely to result in new fees on broadband service. |
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