[telecom] Comcast asks the FCC to make sure states can't pass their own net neutrality laws

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by Daniel Frankel, FierceCable, Nov 7, 2017

Comcast is lobbying the FCC, asking the agency to make it clear in its new net neutrality laws that states can't adopt different rules.

"The Commission's order in this proceeding should include a clear, affirmative ruling that expressly confirms the primacy of federal law with respect to BIAS [broadband interstate access service] as an interstate information service, and that preempts state and local efforts to regulate BIAS either directly or indirectly," wrote Matthew Brill, an attorney for Latham & Watkins LLP representing Comcast, in a letter to FCC Secretary Marlene Dortch.

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