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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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

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) ...

Pull up your phone bill and do a Ctrl+F search for ... Communications Act in 1996 created the USF, an independent program under the FCC's jurisdiction that expanded universal service to include ...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the FCC subsidies cover only phone and internet services ... to curtail administrative agencies in other areas, is defending the FCC program. The appeal was initially ...

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 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 ...