Verizon Must Offer Rivals Wireless Access, Court Rules
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Verizon Wireless must offer smaller competitors access to its nationwide networks for mobile Internet use, a federal court ruled, turning aside the company’s challenge to a U.S. regulation requiring sharing agreements.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington today rejected Verizon’s argument that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission exceeded limits on its power to regulate mobile-service providers when it approved the rule on so-called data roaming last year.