Appeals Court Asked to Vacate Net Neutrality Ruling
MediaPost, August 17, 2009
By Wendy Davis
Comcast is asking an appeals court to rule that the FCC lacked the authority to sanction the company for violating Net Neutrality principles by throttling peer-to-peer traffic. Last year, the FCC ruled 3-2 that Comcast's pattern of interfering with high-bandwidth peer-to-peer traffic violated principles that had been set out in a 2005 Internet policy statement.
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