“AT&T actively involved in the agency operations below … because it wishes to avoid redundant and troublesome control of the broadband Internet access assistance that it offers,” the organization said in papers registered with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. “Its profits will, therefore, be considerably affected by any study of the Order by this Court.”
In December, the FCC voted 3-2 to repeal Obama-era net neutrality rules that forbade broadband carriers from tackling or throttling online traffic and from taking companies higher fees for prioritized delivery. The office also dismissed a prior choice to classify broadband as a utility service a move that authorized the FCC to impose common carrier rules on providers. Critics of the FCC’s decision assistance that net neutrality rules are critical to prevent carriers from discriminating against adversaries, and from harming small corporations that can’t afford high fees for fast-lane service.
Last month, a sequence of the attorney general, along with consumer groups and Mozilla, sued the FCC over the repeal.
The FCC said in court documents filed late last week that the request is premature because the rules won’t take impact until after they have been announced in the Federal Register.
Mozilla’s chief legal officer, Danielle Dixon, said this week the organization will re-file its trial after the rules are distributed. “We will always fight to guard the open internet and will continue to challenge the FCC’s choice to destroy net neutrality in the courts, in Congress, and with our allies and internet users,”
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