Power Companies Lose Court Bid on Telecom Pole-Wiring Fee
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American Electric Power Co., Southern Co. and seven other power companies lost a court challenge to U.S. rules setting rates telephone and cable providers must pay to attach lines to electric utility poles.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today upheld Federal Communications Commission regulations aimed at simplifying and reducing rates to spur deployment of high-speed Internet service, or broadband, finding the agency’s justifications to be reasonable.