common carrier
- noun
- /ˈkɑːmən ˈkɛrɪər/
- Formal
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operador de telecomunicaciones
- Telecommunications companies are considered common carriers because they provide services to the general public and must follow specific regulations.
- common carrier duties on broadband
- providers as common carriers
- common carrier duties
Aren't these platforms just like that, the pipes or common carriers of our messages to one another?
- Aren't these platforms just like that, the pipes or common carriers of our messages to one another?
Examples
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A reclassification of broadband providers as common carriers allows the FCC to reinstate the anti-discrimination and anti-blocking rules under the Open Internet Order.
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The agency can decide to impose common carrier duties on broadband providers.
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Enterprises were historically classified as common carriers when the services they provided were of a public nature.
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Finally, broadband providers are common carriers because the services they willingly set out to provide are of public concern.
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The services offered by broadband providers are public in nature, and therefore, broadband providers should be classified as common carriers.
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The sections below explore the reasons for and benefits of imposing common carrier duties on broadband providers.
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Finally, there is a long history of imposing common carrier duties on enterprises like broadband providers.
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The reasons for imposing common carrier duties are met by the current net neutrality argument.
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The answer was even simpler: the FCC had to reclassify broadband providers as common carriers.
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Classifying broadband providers as common carriers allows the FCC to reinstate the anti-discrimination and anti-blocking rules from the Open Internet Order.
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Synonyms
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A person or company that delivers letters and packages
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound transparently combines 'common' (public/shared) and 'carrier' (one who transports), so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer it means a carrier that serves the public. However, the specific legal/telecommunications sense with regulatory duties and nondiscriminatory obligations is technical and not fully predictable from the parts, making the phrase only partially transparent.
Etymology
Common carrier in law and communications keeps the same picture: a carrier carries messages or data and common means 'for the public'. So a phone or internet company called a common carrier must carry other people's messages and 'treat all traffic fairly'.