{"id":942188,"date":"2025-06-30T07:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=942188"},"modified":"2025-06-30T07:43:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T02:13:31","slug":"us-supreme-court-backs-fccs-defense-of-fund-for-expanded-telecom-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/30\/us-supreme-court-backs-fccs-defense-of-fund-for-expanded-telecom-access\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court backs FCC’s defense of fund for expanded telecom access"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday endorsed the way the Federal Communications Commission funds its multi-billion dollar program to expand phone and broadband internet access to low-income and rural Americans and other beneficiaries. <\/p>\n

The 6-3 ruling overturned a lower court’s decision that the FCC’s funding mechanism employing mandatory contributions from telecommunications companies had effectively levied a “misbegotten tax” on consumers in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s vesting of legislative authority in Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday endorsed the way the Federal Communications Commission funds its multi-billion dollar program to expand phone and broadband internet access to low-income and rural Americans and other beneficiaries. The 6-3 ruling overturned a lower court’s decision that the FCC’s funding mechanism employing mandatory contributions from telecommunications companies had effectively levied a “misbegotten tax” on consumers in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s vesting of legislative authority in Congress.<\/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-942188","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\/942188","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=942188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/942188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=942188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=942188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=942188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}