Cleveland residents file FCC complaint against AT&T redlining

Cleveland residents, with the assistance of Florida attorney Daryl Parks, filed a complaint against AT&T. The complaint, before the FCC, alleges “AT&T’s offerings of high-speed broadband service violate the Communications Act’s prohibition against unjust and unreasonable discrimination.”

The lawsuit follows a March report from the National Digital Inclusion Alliance and a local digital inclusion organization. Relying on June 2016 data from the FCC, the report found that AT&T neglected to build its fiber-to-the-node technology to Cleveland’s poor neighborhoods and argued that “AT&T has systematically discriminated against lower-income Cleveland residents in its deployment of home Internet and video technologies over the past decade.”

Links:

Formal Complaint Against AT&T (FCC, Aug. 24, 2017)

AT&T redlines Cleveland’s low-income neighborhoods, digital inclusion advocates allege (Speed Matters, Mar. 13, 2017)