USTelecom Takes FCC Side in One Net Neutrality challenge

USTelecom, which has challenged the Federal Communications Commission's justification for new open Internet rules, has asked a federal Court for permission to weigh in in support of the FCC. Specifically, the trade group, which represents telecommunication company Internet service providers, has asked permission of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to intervene on behalf of the FCC in the single challenge of the FCC's Title II-based rules by Full Service Network, which argues the FCC was not regulatory enough."Unlike all of the other petitioners that have filed petitions to date, these Petitioners intend to argue that the FCC should have imposed even more regulation on providers of broadband Internet access service, including USTelecom’s member companies," it told the court in explaining why it would be taking the FCC's side. If it got intervenor status, it could file a brief arguing why the FCC should not have imposed more regulations than it did. USTelecom made it clear it was only siding with the FCC against the call for more regulations, not against any of the other petitions -- like its own -- that have been filed against Title II as an over, not under, reach.