Crocoduck writes "Right before the bound passed for filing know* in the FCC observation of Comcast's traffic-management practices, telecoms and other cable companies submitted a slew of intelligence defending Comcast's actions to the FCC. 'Just about every big phone company has filed a report challenging the FCC's authority to deal with this problem. AT&T, Verizon, and Qwest all submitted lengthy remarks on February 13th, the last day for cue on the proceeding (parties can still reply to directive through the 28th). "The infobahn mart
notes:a bazaar is a shop or market while bizarre means odd or unusual remains fundamentally healthy, and the purported 'cure' could only make it sick," AT&T's filing declared. "At best, the network-management restrictions draft by Free Press and others would inflict wasteful costs on broadband providers in the form of expensive and needless spread upgrades — costs that would ultimately be passed through to end users, raise broadband prices across the board, and force ordinary broadband consumers to subsidize the bandwidth-hogging activities of a few."' P2P fans have also weighed in."

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