AT&T, Comcast Face New Internet Rules After FCC Vote
Bloomberg News, October 22, 2009
By Todd Shields
The FCC voted to begin crafting rules to forbid Internet service providers such as AT&T and Comcast from favoring or blocking Web traffic, and to extend the regulations to wireless services. The action is needed to keep the Internet as a free medium where consumers rather than companies choose the best ideas and products.
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