FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations

A petition submitted to the FCC by several of the players (including AT&T, CenturyLink, and USTelecom) who would be most affected by the agency's recently asserted Internet regulatory powers has been rejected by the agency's leadership. The Internet providers, along with the CTIA trade association, asserted that the FCC's Open Internet order is aganst the public interest. Per The Verge, the Commission last Friday "denied the petition, issuing an order that states its classification of broadband internet as a telecommunications service "falls well within the Commission's statutory authority, is consistent with Supreme Court precedent, and fully complies with the Administrative Procedure Act."

Comments

Re:Good to see the FCC at least considered it.

[Cafe Alpha]

Doesn't it say in the Bible that corporations go to heaven? I'm sure it must.

Re:how long until the internet dies?

[Cafe Alpha]

They can afford to brainwash millions of elderly tea partiers who think that the army is about to invade Texas and take away all their guns because Obama is a n****r..

Re:Good to see the FCC at least considered it.

[hlavac]

Problem with corporations is they are immortal. They can do evil forever as long as its profitable. We need death penalty for corporations. And assasinations for corporations :)

Re: how long until the internet dies?

[silentcoder]

>Naturally the right wing opposes it.

Isn't that the Republican moto ? "America has seen great progress over the past 75 years, and we have been the opposition to all of it."