The FCC's digital discrimination rule, which is aimed at facilitating equal access to broadband, goes beyond what Congress intended in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), a federal appeals court said Wednesday as it struck down the regulation. Asked about next steps for a new digital discrimination regime, as directed by the IIJA but in line with the court decision, the agency didn't comment.

NTIA Administrator Arielle Roth said Wednesday that the administration’s process of making additional midband spectrum available for full-power commercial use is moving quickly, with the 2.7 and 7 GHz bands moving closer to final decisions. Speaking at a CTIA wireless and AI summit, Roth also said NTIA is launching a website, spectrum.gov, to provide more transparency on the process of making airwaves available. Some still view spectrum policy as a “black box,” and “we’ve set out to change that.”

The FCC’s previous win against Consumers’ Research at the U.S. Supreme Court on the USF puts the agency on firmer footing in the ongoing legal challenge at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, USF advocates said Wednesday during a webinar held by the Schools, Health, Libraries & Broadband Coalition (SHLB) and the American Library Association.

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