Case Study And Pending Lawsuits In Net Neutrality
National Cable & Telecommunications Ass. v Brand X Internet Services
The FCC declared internet access as an ‘information service’ in 2002 which meant that telephone companies could give their own internet pricing at a discount over a competitor ISP who would be charged double the rate to have access to the high-speed internet access services on the same line.
Telephone companies such as AT&T also required that customers of third-party ISPs purchase AT&Tbranded landline services in order to provide DSL.
Cable companies, on the other hand, offered no access at all to their data lines