Mobile Future: Time For Permanent ITFA

With the passage of the House-passed omnibus appropriations bill by the Senate over the weekend, the moratorium on Internet access tax has indeed been extended, at least until October of next year, but ISP's would like a little more security than that.  

ISP's are breathing easier, but not as easily as they would have if a proposed permanent moratorium bill passed.  

As it was, the Internet Tax Freedom Act will have to be extended again in less than a year. It has been extended four times now since being adopted in 1998.

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John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.