Getting your player ready...
WASHINGTON — The Federal Communications Commission ran into a potential setback Friday in its push to draft rules that would require Internet providers to give equal treatment to all data flowing over their networks.
In hearing a legal dispute between the agency and Comcast Corp., a three-judge federal appeals court panel questioned the commission’s authority to impose so-called “net neutrality” obligations on the nation’s largest cable TV and Internet operator.
Those rules are intended to prevent broadband providers from abusing their control over the market for high-speed Internet access.
A decision that goes against the FCC could undermine its ability to impose such rules on all broadband companies — not just Comcast.
