WASHINGTON, March 23 (UPI) -- Two telecommunication entities are suing the FCC over its recently passed net neutrality rules.
USTelecom, an industry trade group, and Alamo, an Internet service provider, are the companies involved. "We do not believe the Federal Communications Commission's move to utility-style regulation invoking Title II authority is legally sustainable," USTelecom President Walter McCormick said in a statement, according to the Washington Post.
USTelecom is involved with many major Internet providers, including AT&T and Verizon.
"The Commission was served today with two challenges to the Open Internet Order," an FCC spokesperson told The Verge. "We believe that the petitions for review filed today are premature and subject to dismissal."
The entities are claiming the FCC is going beyond its legal authority and will damage their industry. The rules they are referring to are the FCC's recently adopted net neutrality rules, which the FCC's Chairman Tom Wheeler and Internet freedom activists have celebrated as protecting the current form of the Internet and preventing censorship. The change reclassified the Internet as a public utility.
