Broadband Internet Access Service Transmitted via Wirelines (Digital Subscriber Line, DSL) Is an Information Service and Thus is Not Subject to the Title II Regulation of the Communications Act, and Telephone Companies are Not Required to Afford Non-Facility-Based Independent Internet Service Providers with Nondiscriminatory Access to the Companies' Wireline Facilities: Time Warner Telecom, Inc. v. FCC

Authors

Liu Duan

Abstract

The Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied independent Internet service providers (ISPs), competing telecommunications service providers, cable modem providers, and various public interest groups' petitions for review of final order of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that relieves telephone companies of any obligation to grant competing ISPs nondiscriminatory access to their wireline (DSL) transmission facilities.

Time Warner Telecom, Inc. v. FCC, 507 F.3d 205 (3d Cir. 2007).

First Page

149

Recommended Citation

Liu Duan, Broadband Internet Access Service Transmitted via Wirelines (Digital Subscriber Line, DSL) Is an Information Service and Thus is Not Subject to the Title II Regulation of the Communications Act, and Telephone Companies are Not Required to Afford Non-Facility-Based Independent Internet Service Providers with Nondiscriminatory Access to the Companies' Wireline Facilities: Time Warner Telecom, Inc. v. FCC, 47 Duq. L. Rev. 149 (2009).
Available at: https://dsc.duq.edu/dlr/vol47/iss1/7