Tough new net neutrality regulations were published in the Federal Register on Monday, triggering an effective date of June 12 and the first formal legal challenge to the controversial online traffic rules.
US Telecom, a trade group whose members include AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., filed a lawsuit Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to stop the rules.
The Federal Communications Commission approved the regulations by a 3-2 vote on Feb. 26.
They change the legal classification of wired and wireless broadband, treating it as a more highly regulated telecommunications service in an attempt to ensure that providers don't discriminate against any legal content flowing through their networks to consumers.
The 400-page order was made public two weeks after the vote as the FCC posted it on the agency's website.
The order's publication in the Federal Register, which generally takes a few weeks after new regulations are adopted, started a 60-day clock on its effective date -- unless a court blocks them.
Supporters of the rules, which prohibit Internet service providers from blocking, slowing or selling priority delivery of content to consumers, cheered the development.
"The publication of the rules brings us one step closer to having the enforceable net neutrality protections that millions of Americans have called for," said Matt Wood, policy director for Free Press, a digital rights group. "And yet phone and cable companies are still scheming to overturn these freedoms."
The publication meant the order formally could be challenged in court -- and it didn't take long.
US Telecom filed suit, arguing the rules are "arbitrary and capricious" and violate federal law.
US Telecom filed a petition with the court last month as a placeholder for a lawsuit, seeking to preserve the right to sue. The group was concerned that the posting of the rules on the FCC website on March 12 might have triggered a 10-day period to challenge them.
More suits are expected. A similar petition was filed last month in the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans by Alamo Broadband Inc., a small Internet service provider based in Elmendorf, Texas.
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