{"id":1012332,"date":"2026-06-05T08:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012332"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:21:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:51:36","slug":"supreme-court-sides-with-trump-administration-on-federal-regulation-of-telecom-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/05\/supreme-court-sides-with-trump-administration-on-federal-regulation-of-telecom-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on federal regulation of telecom companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in upholding the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws on telecommunications companies. <\/p>\n<p>The 8-1 decision preserved one of the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s key tools, though the companies also won a concession from the Republican administration that could shift the regulatory landscape. <\/p>\n<p>The appeal from telecommunications giants Verizon and AT&amp;T challenged a combined $100 million in penalties imposed after the agency determined that the companies had failed to safeguard customer location data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: The Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration Thursday in upholding the power of federal regulators to enforce data privacy laws on telecommunications companies. The 8-1 decision preserved one of the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s key tools, though the companies also won a concession from the Republican administration that could shift the regulatory landscape. The appeal from telecommunications giants Verizon and AT&amp;T challenged a combined $100 million in penalties imposed after the agency determined that the companies had failed to safeguard customer location data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012348,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012332\/revisions\/1012348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}