The 3rd Circuit has upheld an FCC ruling that effectively deregulated high-speed Internet access service provided over traditional telephone lines, finding that the FCC's decision simply extended the logic of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2005 Brand X ruling. In Brand X, the high court upheld a previous FCC ruling that said cable companies provide an "information service" rather than a "telecommunications service" and therefore should not be forced to share their infrastructure with ISPs.
October 17, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
In a victory for big telephone companies, a federal appeals court has upheld a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission that effectively deregulated high-speed Internet access service provided over traditional telephone lines.
In its September 2005 ruling, the FCC relieved telephone companies of decades-old regulations that required them to grant competing Internet service providers “nondiscriminatory” access to their wirelines in order to reach consumers.
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