Verizon Appeals FCC’s Leased Access Rules

Locking arms with the cable industry, Verizon Communications Inc. is going to court to challenge the rock-bottom rates that leased access programmers gained under Federal Communications Commission rules adopted last fall. Verizon, a traditional telephone company that has signed up about 1 million customers to its FiOS video product, filed its case Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the same venue chosen by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association for its appeal, court records show. Nevertheless, the case will be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati, where the United Church of Christ had filed its appeal. A lottery system is used to select the court when similar cases are filed in multiple courts.
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