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Time Warner Cable first to earn Open Internet complaint

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Well, that was fast.

Less than a week after the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Open Internet rulestook effect, a San Diego-based companyannounced that it would file an FCC complaint against Time Warner Cable (TWC). Commercial Network Service streams live video over the Internet and accuses TWC of a “blatant violation” of the FCC’s rules, claiming the cable company charged unreasonable rates for service.

Under the FCC’s Open Internet rules, the Commission's complaint process allows consumers and companies to send complaints about "Open Internet/Net Neutrality Issues" directly to the FCC. If the complaint is “actionable or constitute[s] a rule violation,” the FCC will send it to the cable company, which then has 30 days to respond.

Time Warner Cable will be the first to get hit with a net neutrality complaint (Washington Post, June 16, 2015)

Open Internet rules now in effect (Speed Matters, June 15, 2015)