COSTLY ENDEAVOUR: AT&T executives said that it would cost the company about US$400mil (RM1.44bil) in lost revenue to end current marketing practices in order to set up new procedures for compliance with the tighter, though yet unspecified, privacy protection requirements for broadband providers.
WASHINGTON: AT&T Inc, CenturyLink Inc and US telecom and cable industry groups called for regulators to block parts of new rules for Internet service providers, citing "crushing" compliance costs and threats to investment.
In filings with the Federal Communications Commission, the industry did not ask for a suspension of the principal "net neutrality" rules that ban Internet providers from blocking and slowing down web traffic or from striking deals with content companies for smoother downloads.
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