{"id":87149,"date":"2010-04-13T18:53:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/fcc-chief-d-c-court-ruling-should-not-affect-broadband-plan\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T18:53:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:53:48","slug":"fcc-chief-d-c-court-ruling-should-not-affect-broadband-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/fcc-chief-d-c-court-ruling-should-not-affect-broadband-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Chief: D.C. Court Ruling, \u201cShould Not Affect Broadband Plan\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An April 6 decision by <strong>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia<\/strong> against the <strong>U.S. Federal Communications Commission<\/strong>\u2019s [FCC] Internet regulatory authority should not affect the FCC\u2019s National Broadband Plan, according to FCC International Bureau Chief Mindel De La Torre.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; De La Torre said that the FCC is sticking with its current timetable for the National Broadband Plan and its allocation of spectrum. &#8220;The major work on the ATC spectrum plans will start moving forward in roughly six months,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Tuesday\u2019s ruling, the court stated that the FCC lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The court case is based on a 2008 legal challenge filed by <strong>Comcast<\/strong> against the FCC, after the commission banned the company from blocking its broadband subscribers from using file-sharing torrent sites. Comcast claims the FCC order is illegal because the agency doesn\u2019t have the ability to create or enforce legal regulations.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201c[The FCC] is firmly committed to promoting an open Internet and to policies that will bring the enormous benefits of broadband to all Americans,\u201d the FCC said in a statement following the ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An April 6 decision by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia against the U.S. Federal Communications Commission\u2019s [FCC] Internet regulatory authority should not affect the FCC\u2019s National Broadband Plan, according to FCC International Bureau Chief Mindel De La Torre. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; De La Torre said that the FCC is sticking with its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}