The Supreme Court is considering whether the FCC can continue collecting billions for subsidized internet and phone services. The ruling could impact connectivity for schools, libraries, and millions ...

"The FCC can't do anything by way of this ... eligible low-income consumers receive discounts on program-supported broadband internet or phone services. "Without Lifeline, millions who rely ...

Central to FCC v. Consumers' Research, now pending before the US Supreme Court, is technology that props up nearly every aspect of modern life: broadband internet. The Universal Service Fund (USF) ...

Decisions to eliminate rules can be challenged in court. TechFreedom, a libertarian-leaning think tank, supported the goals of "Delete, Delete, Delete" but cautioned the FCC to move deliberately so ...

In the law establishing the program, she explained, Congress told the FCC “what policy to follow” – to give all Americans “universal service;” how it should do so, “by charging carriers a fee, then ...

A majority of the Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to wipe out a Federal Communications Commission program.

The Supreme Court leaned toward upholding a $9 billion subsidy program that funds phone and internet services ... the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) too much power in administering ...

The justices heard arguments in an appeal by the agency and a coalition of telecommunications firms and interest groups of a lower court's ruling that the FCC funding operation effectively levied ...

The challenge by conservatives to the program raised questions about how much Congress can delegate its legislative authority to a federal agency.

The program has to subsidize services essential to education, public health and public safety. That doesn’t mean the FCC can include ... what would happen to phone and internet service for ...