caption: Verizon executive Tom Tauke, left, says it's "critical" that the Federal Communications Commission be required to follow the law.
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ASPEN, Colo. -- Verizon today renewed its criticisms of the Obama administration's Net neutrality rules, saying its lawsuit seeking to overturn them will rein in an out-of-control federal agency.
The company's lawsuit is about "the importance of restraint on the regulatory authority in the Internet space," said Tom Tauke, Verizon's executive vice president for public affairs. "We believe that is critical -- and this battle is really a battle about that kind of restraint."
In September 2011, Verizon filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Federal Communication Commission's Net neutrality rules. The suit, currently pending before a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., claims the FCC did not have the legal authority to adopt the regulations.
"If you allow an agency to go outside those guidelines and begin to set policies that is not authorized (to do), then there is no limitation on what that agency can do," Tauke said at the Technology Policy Institute's conference here today.
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