The only surprise here is the timing: On Monday, the lobbying group US Telecom filed what amounts to a placeholder lawsuit to block the Federal Communications Commission's decision to reclassify broadband internet as a Title II utility, as a way to enforce net neutrality. US Telecom counts among its members Verizon, AT&T, and other broadband heavyweights. Texas provider Alamo Broadband filed a similar, separate suit Monday with the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
US Telecom, which filed its suit with the federal appellate court in Washington, D.C., and Alamo jumped in because they didn't want their actual lawsuits to be dismissed on a technicality. The FCC says that challenges can be filed up to 60 days after its net neutrality rules are published in the Federal Register, expected in the next few days, but the broadband companies pointed to a 10-day window from when the FCC released its rules, on March 12.
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