Verizon Wireless may be bitterly regretting the challenge Verizon made to the FCC’s Net neutrality rules. There’s little doubt competing wireless providers are. Verizon in 2010 sued the FCC over its mandate that ISPs treat all Internet data the same. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals this year agreed with Verizon and struck down the rules. Fast-forward several months. The FCC is putting it all back on the table. It intends to reclassify broadband Internet as a “telecommunications service” — and apply similar regulations to wireless broadband.
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One Way Around the Mobile Net Neutrality Conundrum
Posted by: Erika Morphy October 9, 2014 05:33 PMVerizon Wireless may be bitterly regretting the challenge Verizon made to the FCC’s Net neutrality rules. There’s little doubt competing wireless providers are. Verizon in 2010 sued the FCC over its mandate that ISPs treat all Internet data the same. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals this year agreed with Verizon and struck down the rules. Fast-forward several months. The FCC is putting it all back on the table. It intends to reclassify broadband Internet as a “telecommunications service” — and apply similar regulations to wireless broadband.