Telecom operators in the US are continuing their fight against the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet Order, setting rules on net neutrality. On 27 July, the DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals rejected their petition for a review of the order, saying the FCC acted with the appropriate authority in its decision to reclassify broadband as a telecom service and subject it to stricter regulations.
In response, the operators have filed for an en banc rehearing of the court's decision, the FCC said. Industry association USTelecom confirmed it filed the appeal, and the cable groups ACA and NCTA and mobile association CTIA said they were also appealing the rules.
"It comes as no surprise that the big dogs have challenged the three-judge panel’s decision," said FCC chairman Tom Wheeler. "We are confident that the full court will agree with the panel’s affirmation of the FCC’s clear authority to enact its strong Open Internet rules, the reasoned decision-making upon which they are based, and the adequacy of the record from which they were developed."
The rules took effect in June 2015.
