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Criticism mounts against AT&T's TDM-to-IP migration petition with the FCC

More comments are flowing in on the telco giant's petition to the FCC to hold TDM-to-IP migration trials, with some commenters suggesting AT&T is simply trying to avoid regulatory requirements that come with its legacy infrastructure.

AT&T faces net neutrality complaint over FaceTime plans

Public interest groups Free Press, Public Knowledge and the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute said they will file a formal complaint against AT&T Mobility for violating the FCC's net neutrality rules. The groups argue that AT&T's decision to offer Apple's FaceTime video calling feature over cellular at no extra charge only to its Mobile Share data plan customers contravenes the FCC's Open Internet rules.

Verizon relaunches net neutrality lawsuit against FCC

The Federal Communications Commission's new net neutrality rules, which are scheduled to go into effect in late November, are officially under fire from multiple directions. Verizon ( NYSE: VZ ) is

Free Press files suit against FCC's net neutrality rules

Free Press, an Internet public interest group, has filed a lawsuit challenging the FCC's net neutrality rules that will go into effect on Nov. 23. Wood Filed in the First Circuit Court of

Free Press lawsuit says wireless carriers got off too easy

Internet advocacy group Free Press has filed a lawsuit challenging the FCC's new net neutrality rules, which are scheduled to go into effect Nov. 23. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Boston, is

Public interest groups press FCC to hold public hearings on AT&T/T-Mobile deal

A coalition of public interest groups opposed to AT&T's ( NYSE:T ) proposed $39 billion purchase of T-Mobile USA asked the FCC to hold a series of hearings across the country to "hear from the

Genachowski's net neutrality proposal draws mixed reaction

FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski's proposed net neutrality rules ignited a firestorm of criticism from proponents of net neutrality as well as from Republicans in Congress and Genachowski's fellow

Odd bedfellows? Tea party activists back telecoms' net neutrality opposition

Anti-government beliefs have led tea party members and other conservative activists to side with telecom providers opposing the FCC's net neutrality policy even though, to some, this means they're

Groups anything but neutral on net neutrality

First it was financial regulation, then it was healthcare and now the government, in the form of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is looking at how it might get its regulatory mitts on

ACA asks FCC for more time to work out details of Comcast-NBCU comments

The American Cable Association would like a little more time to wring out its comments to the FCC about the Comcast-NBC Universal merger. With the June 21 deadline for comments looming, the ACA asked