• B&C, Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:21 AM

Reaction was swift and mixed to the FCC's release Wednesday of a request for further comment on its proposed codification and expansion of network neutrality guidelines. The commission said there was growing agreement, or at least "narrowing of disagreement" on the majority of its proposals, but that two sticky issues remained: applying them to mobile broadband and allowing specialized services.

Contributing to that meeting of the minds that the FCC cited has been stakeholder meetings both at the FCC and elsewhere involving among others, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association and AT&T. Reclassification is the way the FCC plans to establish its authority over the kind of broadband oversight it is asserting in the net neutrality proposal.

The FCC has provided 30 days for comment and 55 days for response. That clock does not start until the proposal is printed in the Federal Register, which means a likely December deadline for those comments.

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