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[ NNSquad ] AT&T: FCC has never had regulatory power over broadband
----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> ----- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:55:53 -0400 From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Subject: [IP] AT&T: FCC has never had regulatory power over broadband Reply-To: dave@farber.net To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> Begin forwarded message: > From: Stagg Newman <lsnewmanjr@yahoo.com> > Date: April 14, 2010 8:50:37 AM EDT > To: dave@farber.net, ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> > Subject: Re: [IP] AT&T: FCC has never had regulatory power over > broadband > > The FCC has regulated Frame Relay, ATM, and SONET and other high speed > private line services as Title II services. > Those service are in the family of broadband services. > > The FCC did not regulate Internet service as Title II. > > There is a deft change in the email below from broadband to Internet. > They are not synonymns. > > From: David Farber <dave@farber.net> > To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com> > Sent: Tue, April 13, 2010 4:58:38 PM > Subject: [IP] AT&T: FCC has never had regulatory power over broadband > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks) > Date: April 12, 2010 2:44:14 PM EDT > To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy@warpspeed.com> > Subject: [Dewayne-Net] AT&T: FCC has never had regulatory power over > broadband > > AT&T: FCC has never had regulatory power over broadband > The Hill > By Kim Hart > > AT&T lobbyist Hank Hultquist disputes that the FCC ever had the > authority over broadband that it seeks today. > > His comments in a blog post fuel the fast-growing fight over whether > the FCC can or should reclassify broadband as a "Title II" service, > rather than the "Title I" service it is today. The D.C. Circuit clearly > said last week that the FCC cannot impose net neutrality rules with the > current classification. > > A host of legal experts and lobbyists have made the case that the FCC > should be able to revert back to Title II, since the agency used to have > regulatory authority over DSL and other broadband services until 2002, > when they were reclassified as Title I. > > <http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/91603-atat-fcc-has-never-had-regulatory-power-over-broadband > >RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- End forwarded message -----