Comcast fired back at the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday in its long-running duel with the agency. The cable-TV and Net service provider filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.

The filing is the aftereffect of a FCC hearing last month in which Comcast was sanctioned for throttling back the broadband speed of customers using the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file-sharing application. The FCC ordered Comcast to supply plans for equitably managing its bandwidth and to form its

network-management policies public.

Comcast’s View

Comcast had already agreed to the FCC’s demands and rapidly put into place a management program that capped home Net users — regardless of the application used — at 250GB per month. The cap was widely reported in media outlets, bill inserts to Comcast customers, and banner announcements on Comcast’s Web site.

The suit is not about the nature of the commission’s sanction, but whether the […]

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