'Sky will not fall' as a result of Comcast case

Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell said "the sky will not fall" because of the agency's court loss to Comcast.

He said broadband providers have already "committed themselves to open Internet principles and were running their business consistent with their consumers' wishes for access to content and applications of their choosing, as well as the freedom to connect Internet devices to their connections." Consequently, Powell stressed the "courts will forever question FCC efforts to stretch its authority beyond the areas it is expressly authorized to regulate. Rather than continue to try and force round pegs into square holes, the FCC should seek legal clarity from Congress as to the proper bounds of its authority."