Perspective
Jun. 24, 2016
FCC's internet order strikes a reasonable balance
The D.C. Circuit's approval of the FCC's Open Internet Order — declaring that broadband facilities are telecommunications services subject to FCC regulation — has taken the legal community and telecom experts by surprise. By Anita Taff-Rice
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The legal community and telecom experts were taken by surprise when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the Federal Communications Commission's "Open Internet Order" last week. Attorneys who had attended the oral argument of the case widely expected the FCC to lose. The opponents of the order, largely the incumbent local exchange carriers such as AT&T and sympathetic trade groups, appeared to have created a sig...
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