AT&T: FCC has never had regulatory power over broadband

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> 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
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> 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
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> AT&T: FCC has never had regulatory power over broadband
> The Hill
> By Kim Hart
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> 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.
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> <http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/91603-atat-fcc-has-never-had-regulatory-power-over-broadband 
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