FCC's Open Internet Order Challenged in 3rd Circuit

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Add Full Service Network, TruConnect Mobile, Sage Telecommunications and Telescape Telecommunications — collectively they are filing one petition — to those challenging the FCC's new network neutrality order.

That makes an even eight court challenges to the rules, but the latest — dated April 23 — is important for where it is filed: the Third Circuit Full Service, based in Pennsylvania, which is in the Third circuit.

Currently among those eight court challenges are filings in the D.C. circuit, where deal critics feel they have the best chance since that is the court that has twice rejected FCC net neutrality efforts, one in the Fifth, and now the Third, where regulation fans tend to file (most notably, the court that stayed the FCC's deregulatory media ownership rules more than a decade ago).

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John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.