Verizon and AT&T respond to FCC ruling

Verizon has issued a response to the FCC's net neutrality ruling:

“The FCC’s move is especially regrettable because it is wholly unnecessary. The FCC had targeted tools available to preserve an open Internet, but instead chose to use this order as an excuse to adopt 300- plus pages of broad and open- ended regulatory arcana that will have unintended negative consequences for consumers and various parts of the Internet ecosystem for years to come.” It was first released in Morse code.

AT&T offered a less humorous reply:

“What doesn’t make sense, and has never made sense, is to take a regulatory framework developed for Ma Bell in the 1930s and make her great grandchildren, with technologies and options undreamed of eighty years ago, live under it.”


Jim Cicconi, AT&T’s Senior executive vice president of external and legislative affairs goes on to say: “A 3-2 decision, particularly on issues of such broad scope, is an invitation to revisiting the decision, over and over and over."