Comcast Case Does Not Jeopardize Using USF for Broadband: AT&T

AT&T has written the Federal Communications Commission with its interpretation of the D.C. Circuit's recent decision in Comcast v. FCC. A bottom line, for AT&T, is that the decision in no way diminishes, and, if anything, bolsters, the FCC's statutory authority to support broadband deployment and subscribership through the federal universal service program. The decision in no way suggests, AT&T states, that the FCC must reclassify broadband Internet access services as telecommunications services in order to shift federal universal service support to broadband.