Dish, Others Ask Court to Reject Title II Stay

Supporters of Title II-based network neutrality rules -- including Public Knowledge, Free Press, Cogent, COMPTEL, Dish Network and others -- have asked the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to deny petitions by cable and telecommunications Internet service providers to stay implementation of the Federal Communications Commission's reclassification of Internet access as a common-carrier service until the court has heard their underlying challenge. In the opposition to the motion to stay, the groups and companies said that a stay would "deny customers the guarantee of an Open Internet while causing uncertainty for companies and consumers alike."

The ISPs have not asked the FCC to stay the bright-line rules against blocking, throttling or paid prioritization, but do want the court to put a hold on the Title II reclassification, the application of Title II to interconnections, and its general Internet conduct standard. “For the rules to be stayed, the carriers must meet an exacting legal standard. They have failed to do so," the companies told the court.