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FCC Tosses Petition Challenging Its New Internet Regulations

Posted by timothy on from the well-what-else-would-they-do? dept.

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."

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  1. Good by msobkow · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's time to hold the players big and small accountable for their oppressive actions. They should be providing a data pipe, period. No "priority" internally hosted services, no "doesn't count towards your cap" services, no throttling of competing services.

    Perhaps more importantly, classifying broadband as telecommunications opens up the possibility of monopoly breakups in some of the markets where there is a serious lack of competition.

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  2. Re:Good to see the FCC at least considered it. by Cafe+Alpha · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. Re: how long until the internet dies? by silentcoder · · Score: 5, Funny

    >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."

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