Capitol Hill As the year’s legislative calendar winds down, a large new infrastructure spending program with dedicated funding for broadband appears dead. Attention now is on smaller but important pieces of bi-partisan broadband legislation such as the Secure and Trusted Communications Act, introduced in the House of Representatives on September 24. The bill would prohibit … Continue Reading
If you're standing behind Verizon in the line to buy a Powerball ticket, take a look over its shoulder and be sure to buy the same numbers that it does.… Continue Reading
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has tossed Verizon's net neutrality appeal as premature. Verizon will get another chance but, contrary to Verizon's hopes, there's no guarantee that the case will end up in the D.C. Circuit.… Continue Reading
Less than two weeks after Verizon filed a motion asking that its appeal of the net neutrality decision be assigned to the same panel that trashed the Commission in the Comcast opinion last April, that panel has denied Verizon's motion.… Continue Reading
Verizon is trying to herd the next round of appeals in the Net Neutrality proceeding back before the same panel of judges who slammed the FCC in the Comcast decision. Appellate litigation aficionados take note.… Continue Reading
