"The F.C.C. compromise followed a proposal made in August by Google and Verizon, which called on regulators to enforce net neutrality on wired connections but not on the wireless Internet. They also excluded something they called additional, differentiated online services."

"One of the main factors in the current debate is the F.C.C.'s defeat in federal court. The ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that the agency lacks the authority to require broadband providers to give equal treatment to all Internet traffic flowing over their networks was a big victory for the Comcast Corporation, the nation's largest cable company. It had challenged the F.C.C.'s authority to impose the so called net neutrality obligations."