Lengthy Comcast, NCTA Letters to FCC Seek Broad Forbearance of Any Broadband Reclassification
If the FCC doesn't heed their and others' advice and fails to reclassify broadband as a Title II Communications Act service, it should forbear from enforcing all the title's restrictions, said 20-plus page filings by NCTA and its largest member,…
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Comcast. Their individual filings, posted Tuesday and Wednesday in docket 14-28, said alternative net neutrality rules under Section 706 would be much less risky. If the commission goes the Title II route, "at a bare minimum," it "should be coupled with immediate, nationwide forbearance from all of Title II’s obligations and restrictions," said NCTA. Comcast said "proceeding down a reclassification path would be even more precarious in the absence of a grant of broad, nationwide forbearance from enforcement of all Title II obligations and restrictions, including those in Sections 201 and 202." The cable operator said the commission "has clear authority to grant such relief to broadband providers in a streamlined manner."