Title II Gets Day in Court [telecom]

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By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12/04/2015

The FCC's second attempt at network neutrality rules got a thorough going-over in lengthy oral arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. But so did ISP's and others' litany of challenges to various parts of those new rules, most notably for cable operators reclassification under Title II.

The judges seemed to be equal opportunity probers.

Before the argument, a friend of the FCC's court argument predicted that the outcome would be sufficiently ambiguous for both sides to be able to claim some victories, and that appeared to be the case.

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Neal McLain