The issue focused on the Mobile Telecommunications Association of America, a mobile phone and broadband industry group with government connections, especially that of Verizon and AT&T. It said the ISPs were seeking to use the terms interchangeably and are hindering consumers by restricting wireless coverage and internet use.


The Mobile Telecommunications Association of America, which runs wireless phone and broadband Internet access networks, recently formed a group called Mobile Internet Access Access Networks — Mobile Internet Access Network — to fight FCC attempts to require the companies to protect consumers