Several wireless, cable and broadband trade associations today called on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reverse the net neutrality ruling that passed last month in a 2-1 decision by a three-judge panel. David Shepardson reporting in Reuters: “The cable groups said the court should correct “serious errors” in an FCC decision ‘that radically reshapes federal law governing a massive sector of the economy, which flourished due to hundreds of billions of dollars of investment made in reliance on the policy the order throws overboard.’”

— FCC used a flawed and anti-consumer approach to implement net neutrality standards, says USTelecom President Walter McCormick in a statement today: “Regrettably, two judges on the appeals court failed to recognize the significant legal failings of the FCC’s decision to regulate the internet as a public utility. USTelecom has asked for an en banc review to help ensure that the FCC does not give itself authority - which Congress has not granted - to impose heavy-handed regulation on internet access.”

— We don’t celebrate this petition, but we believe this action is necessary to correct unlawful action by the FCC.” / National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), Washington, DC: “We aren’t challenging the specific net neutrality protections - as we’ve explained repeatedly, we have long supported the net neutrality principles embodied in the FCC’s 2010 order that could be enforceable under the Commission’s traditional light touch approach to internet regulation. Regrettably, the 2015 Order abruptly and unreasonably abandoned that long-established precedent, reverting to an outdated regulatory framework. Quite simply, as regulators for decades have acknowledged and consistently determined, dynamic Internet networks do not resemble or deserve to be treated like archaic telephone systems.”

— “It comes as no surprise that the big dogs have challenged the three-judge panel’s decision,” said FCC Chair Tom Wheeler in response to today’s petitions. “We are confident that the full court will agree with the panel’s affirmation of the FCC’s clear authority to enact its strong Open Internet rules, the reasoned decision-making upon which they are based, and the adequacy of the record from which they were developed.”