Net Neutrality Should Not Rely on the Common Carrier Doctrine

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Norton
Keyword(s):  
Net Neutrality ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Carrier

The Common-Carrier Services

1980 ◽  
pp. 157-174
Author(s):  
Robert Techo
Keyword(s):  
The Common ◽  
Common Carrier

The Net Neutrality Debate is Outdated: Time for a New Wider View

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Glass
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Net Neutrality ◽  
Internet Service Providers ◽  
Light Touch ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Common Carrier ◽  
Election Results

AbstractIn 2008, former FCC Commissioner McDowell warned that Net Neutrality regulatory rulings could change every two to four years with election results His prediction was prescient. The democrat-led Wheeler Commission used technical definitions of telecommunication and information services to place all carriers under light touch Title II common carrier regulations. The succeeding republican-led Pai Commission rescinded the Wheeler Commission’s Order. The problem with both orders is that telecommunications and information services as separate categories are losing relevance in the online economy. A new approach to Net Neutrality policy is introduced that recognizes the emergence of large platforms and Internet service providers (ISPs) competing against each other. The recommendation is to break regulatory silos and develop a holistic oversight of the online ecosystem that examines in an integrated way anticompetitive behavior associated with communication, information, and services.

scholarly journals A Curious Tale of Economics and Common Carriage (Net Neutrality) at the FCC: A Reply to Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwayne Winseck ◽  
Jefferson Pooley
Keyword(s):  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Telecommunications Industry ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Federal Communications Commission ◽  
Net Neutrality ◽  
Advocacy Group ◽  
The Common

This reply to “The Curious Absence of Economic Analysis at the Federal Communications Commission” by Faulhaber, Singer, and Urschel makes three claims. First, we document the paper’s undisclosed origins as a white paper commissioned by an advocacy group with deep ties to the telecommunications industry. Second, we describe two of the authors’ active participation, on behalf of clients, in a range of contested issues before the FCC in recent years. Finally, our review of FCC workshops, roundtables, seminars, dockets, and rulings—including during its landmark 2015 Open Internet Order and several blockbuster mergers and acquisitions—provides detailed evidence to refute the paper’s core “curious absence” charge. The stakes could not be higher, we conclude, as the new FCC chair, Ajit Pai, has repeatedly referenced the paper to justify his rollback of FCC regulations—including, crucially, the common carriage/net neutrality rules so vigorously opposed by the paper’s funders.

The Bicycle and the Common Carrier

1898 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Lee Max Friedman
Keyword(s):  
The Common ◽  
Common Carrier

The Case for the Common Carrier in Trucking

1948 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
William A. Spurr
Keyword(s):  
The Common ◽  
Common Carrier
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