The FCC officially published its new net neutrality rules to the Federal Register yesterday, opening the door to legal challenges. Opponents wasted no time. CTIA, the trade association that has represented the wireless industry since 1984, filed a lawsuitwith the DC Circuit Court of Appeals today. In a blog post, the group wrote that it intends to push back against “the FCC’s decision to impose sweeping new net neutrality rules and reclassifying mobile broadband as a common carrier utility.” The National Cable and Telecommunications Association, the American Cable Association, and AT&T also filed suits along similar grounds.
The lawsuits follow an earlier legal challenge by broadband companies, who object to be classified as Title II services. The FCC, for its part, choose Title II because it believed that would give it a stronger argument in court, something it learned after losing a similar battle over open internet rules to Verizon. But the agency went out of its way to enumerate the ways in which it will forbear from enforcing many of the common carrier regulations that Title II imposes on telephone networks.
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The wireless and cable industries just sued to kill net neutrality
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