US telecoms to battle Obama Internet plan in courts, Congress


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 12 Nov 2014

WASHINGTON: The US telecommunications industry plans to fight tooth and nail against President Barack Obama's call for stricter regulations on Internet service providers, taking its case to regulators, courts and Congress.

Obama stunned the telecom community by urging the Federal Communications Commission to reclassify ISPs so they could be regulated more like public utilities as a way to preserve "net neutrality."

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