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Verizon Challenges Broadband Rule

The Washington Post, Thursday, March 25, 2010 11:15 PM

There is a growing push within the agency to reclassify broadband as a common carrier service, meaning Internet service providers would be regulated like telephone companies. But that notion is not sitting well with One of the nation's biggest telecommunications providers, which are pushing the FCC not to assert its authority over Internet services, but to leave it to Congress.

Verizon Communications said that the FCC's power over high-speed Internet services is "at best murky" and offered recommendations to Congress that could take away much of the agency's power. Tom Tauke, Verizon's top lobbyist, arguing that the FCC should shift to more of an enforcement role -- like that of the Federal Trade Commission -- from its current status as a rule-making body.

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