Comcast complains it will make less money under California net neutrality law

California's network neutrality law will cause "significant lost revenues" for Comcast, the nation's largest cable company said in a court filing. Comcast described the net neutrality law's potential impact on its ability to charge online service providers and network operators for network interconnection. "The paid interconnection provisions will harm Comcast's ability to enter into new, mutually beneficial interconnection agreements with edge providers that involve consideration, leading to a loss of existing and prospective interconnection partners and significant lost revenues," Comcast Senior VP Ken Klaer wrote in the filing in US District Court for the Eastern District of California. Comcast submitted its filing on Oct 3 as part of the broadband industry lawsuit that seeks to overturn CA's net neutrality law (SB 822), which is slated to take effect on Jan 1, 2019 unless the court grants a stay halting implementation. Comcast's filing is meant to support the industry's request for an injunction that would halt enforcement of the law while litigation is pending. AT&T also complained about the CA law's interconnection provisions in a court filing, saying that the law "purports to regulate such [interconnection] agreements and may be construed to prohibit payment for direct interconnection in many circumstances."