Groups Urge FCC to Make Internet Billing Transparent and Fair with Broadband Label

More than 30 consumer advocates, broadband-data experts, and digital-rights groups sent a letter calling on the Federal Communications Commission to help consumers avoid “junk fees” by creating a broadband consumer label that is clear and visible on monthly internet bills. The label, which Congress directed the FCC to create as part of the 2021 infrastructure law, has been pending before the FCC since January. The letter was signed by Access Humboldt, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-AAJC, Benton Institute for Broadband & Society, Common Cause, Common Sense, Consumer Reports, Demand Progress Education Fund, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Free Press, Future of Music Coalition, Greenlining Institute, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Measurement Lab, MediaJustice, mohuman, National Broadband Mapping Coalition, National Consumer Law Center (on behalf of its low-income clients), National Consumers League, National Digital Inclusion Alliance, Next Century Cities, New America’s Open Technology Institute, NTEN, OpenCape Corporation, OpenMedia, Carnegie Mellon University Professor Jon M. Peha (former FCC Chief Technologist), Public Knowledge, Public Utility Law Project of New York, Ranking Digital Rights, United Church of Christ, Media Justice Ministry, and X-Lab