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CTIA Urges Revision for Proposed Net Neutrality Rules

The FCC should forbear from applying Section 214 obligations to broadband internet access service under proposed net neutrality rules, just as it did in the 2015 rules, CTIA told the agency. The FCC need not take that step, as it…

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has suggested (see 2310050063), to safeguard national security, said a filing posted Thursday in docket 23-320. “The national security purposes the Notice identifies are already met by expert national security agencies that possess the expertise and authority to oversee the entire technology sector and security risks within it,” CTIA said: “The Notice specifically points to the Commission’s revocation of Section 214 authority from certain Chinese telecommunications companies to suggest there are gaps to be filled, but as the record shows those companies did not focus on U.S. mass market services such as BIAS.” If the FCC finds it must not forbear from part of the section, so that it can revoke a provider’s international Section 214 entry authorization, “it should forbear from all other Section 214(a)–(d) authority,” CTIA said.