Meanwhile, I'd like to think that it would be fitting if the FCC responded by returning to the regulatory strategy it should have adopted in the first place: putting broadband Internet services back under a simplified form of the "Title II" common-carrier regulation that most operated under until 2005. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2011)
That begins to make Google more like a common-carrier utility, which is just about what the behemoth search engine should be. ❋ Nathan Newman (2011)
Or -- and here's where things could get interesting -- the FCC could move on its own to reclassify Internet providers as "Title II" common-carrier services, just like phone carriers. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Or should the FCC stick to its announced plan to apply a subset of the existing common-carrier rules to wired and wireless carriers alike? ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mr. Genachowski, in an effort at compromise, chose a third way: apply only a few of the common-carrier provisions to parts of broadband delivery. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The second it to reclassify broadband services as a Title II common-carrier service, like phones, and forebear on all the rules that may not apply to broadband services. ❋ Unknown (2010)
# Should search engines be subjected to an informational equivalent of common-carrier rules? ❋ Unknown (2005)
Telephones are covered by "common-carrier" laws, which prevent Pac*Bell from being confiscated because someone plans a murder over the wires. ❋ Unknown (1991)
BBSes and for-pay services are NOT covered by common-carrier: THEY ARE PRIVATE SERVICES. ❋ Unknown (1991)
If you're a Usenet site, you may receive megabytes of new data every day, but you have no common-carrier protection in the event that someone puts illegal information onto the Net and thence into your system. ❋ Unknown (1990)
Sysops who received common-carrier status would be a bit dismayed at their inability to deny access to some users. ❋ Unknown (1990)
What is needed is a new status, somewhere between common-carrier and private-operator status. ❋ Unknown (1990)
As early as 1732 some common-carrier lines had wagons which would carry a few passengers. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
We can illustrate the question by supposing a case, of a town some thirty miles from Boston, to which there has hitherto been no common-carrier. ❋ Joshua Leavitt (1833)
WTLPG owns a 2,295 mile common-carrier pipeline system that transports NGLs from New Mexico and Texas to Mont Belvieu, Texas for fractionation.
"We're in talks to build a common-carrier pipeline in the port to transport CO2 to depleted gas fields or inject it into oil fields," he said. ❋ Unknown (2011)
