Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by lightbyte 3120 days ago
>To get around this in 2015 they "reclassified" ISP's from information services to telecommunications services.

telecommunication: Any transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writings, images and sounds or intelligence of any nature by wire, radio, optical or other electromagnetic systems (CS). [1]

It sure sounds like ISP's should in fact be classified as telecommunications services to me.

[1] https://www.itu.int/dms_pub/itu-s/oth/02/02/S02020000244501P... - Article 1.3