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- Title: Brand X and the Wireline Broadband Report and Order: The Beginning of the End of the Distinction Between Title I and Title II Services.
- Author : Federal Communications Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 320 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION At the time of writing this Article in early fall 2005, the ink is barely dry on the Supreme Court's decision in Brand X, in which the Court upheld a 2002 ruling by the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") that cable modem service is properly classified as an information service and does not involve a separate offering of telecommunications service. (1) However, both houses of Congress and the FCC have already reacted in the form of proposed legislation (2) and a Report and Order, (3) respectively, in an effort to expand the deregulatory approach taken by the Commission in its Declaratory Ruling on cable modem service, (4) which the Supreme Court upheld. (5)