The issue focused on language in a proposed cable bill that would have increased oversight over cable companies such as Comcast. Comcast declined to comment for this story. The FCC is a special communications body created in 1972 to implement telecommunications laws. Its final decision in the Verizon case was limited to a fairly modest modification of language and a demonstration of some new technologies such as digital technology, but the FCC also signaled the wireless industry would be monitored for the foreseeable future.


The case is significant because it is the first time a