common carrier

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common carrier

1. One that is in the business of transporting the public, goods, or messages for a fee.

2. A company that provides telecommunications services, as by telephone or satellite, to the public.

common carrier

(Commerce) a person or firm engaged in the business of transporting goods or passengers

com′mon car′rier

1. (in federal regulatory and other legal usage) a carrier offering its services at published rates for interstate transportation.

2. a public service company, as a telephone company, engaged in transmitting messages for the public.

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common carrier - a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages

carrier

line - a commercial organization serving as a common carrier

business, business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern - a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern"

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With these basics, you can see that simple net neutrality means keeping the internet "superhighway" on which we all travel a free and open path, much like a common carrier.

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Currently, the FTC has no ability to regulate the internet because of the common carrier classification.

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While this decision focused on a communications common carrier, it also affects other common carriers, including bus lines, railroads and trucking services.

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The language means the FCC can regulate Internet service providers as common carriers -- essentially legacy telephone companies.

FCC Wins, Cable, Telcos Lose on Net Neutrality

The classification of a private pipeline as a common carrier is critical.

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MANILA -- Transportation contractors and common carriers are exempt from local tax, the Supreme Court said in a ruling released Wednesday.

Transportation and common carriers exempt from local tax, says SC

The prevalence of common carrier usage by dedicated and private operators;

The use of common carriers to control internal capacity: a survey of the industry

Merely registering as a common carrier does not conclusively convey the extraordinary power of eminent domain or bar landowners from contesting in court whether a planned pipeline meets the statutory common carrier requirements," the court said in its ruling in favor of David Holland, a Beaumont-area landowner who questioned Denbury Resources' use of eminent domain to build a carbon dioxide pipeline across his land.

Pipeline Proposal Prompts Eminent Domain Debate

the common carrier provisions of the Communications Act.

Unintentional antitrust: the FCC's only (and better) way forward with net neutrality after the mess of Verizon v. FCC

At that point, a court will have to grapple with applying some very old doctrines to a very new field--including deciding whether the space flight entity is a common carrier, interpreting state and federal statutes regulating the private manned space flight industry, and ascertaining what duty of care the space flight entity must satisfy.

Houston, we have a (liability) problem

Immediately after the trial, the defendants requested a hearing for the judge to determine whether any one of the four defendants was both a common carrier and Aydin's employer.

Common carrier liability

The insurer, however, rejected Fortunoff's claim on the grounds that Fredrickson was acting as a contract carrier, and the BMC-32 only applied to motor common carriers.