The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear the Federal Communications Commission's defense of the mechanism it uses to fund a multi-billion dollar effort to expand phone and broadband internet access to low-income and rural Americans and other beneficiaries.

Like a child custody battle in a throuple, U.S. tech companies are getting pulled in three directions as the Trump administration abandons its predecessor's tacit tolerance, if not always explicit approval, for official censorship in the European Union and Brazil.

Media and Democracy Project (MAD) filed an appeal to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after Trump-appointed commissioner Brendan Carr revived Biden-era petitions against liberal networks but not its effort to deny Fox Corporation a broadcast license for one of its local TV stations.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) last week proposed a new regulation that would require the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in political advertisements to be disclosed, which has one commissioner slamming the move as regulatory overreach ahead of the election.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Thursday nearly 40% of U.S. telecom companies getting federal support need additional government funding to remove equipment made by Chinese telecoms firms Huawei and ZTE (000063.SZ) from American wireless networks to address security risks.

The FCC said removing the equipment is estimated to cost $4.98 billion but Congress has only approved $1.9 billion for the "rip and replace" program.

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday fined the largest U.S. wireless carriers nearly $200 million for illegally sharing access to customers’ location information.

The FCC is finalizing fines first proposed in February 2020, including $80 million for T-Mobile, $12 million for Sprint, which T-Mobile has since acquired; $57 million for AT&T (T.N), opens new tab, and nearly $47 million for Verizon Communications (VZ.N).

The Federal Communications Commission received near-universal praise after it voted to repeal rules that did away with net neutrality.

Net neutrality refers to the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) offer all consumers equal and fair access to legal online content and applications.

That means that ISPs can’t favor some consumers, content or apps over others. It is intended to stop practices such as your ISP slowing down your access to your favorite video streaming app to make their cable packages appear more appealing.

Net neutrality, a set of policies designed to prevent internet-service providers from playing favorites among the websites they carry, is coming back. 

In a vote Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission classified internet service as a public utility. The definition is part of a new framework the FCC will use to regulate broadband networks.