The web giants rejoiced and the telcos regrouped angrily, as the US Appeals Court in Washington DC upheld the tough net neutrality clauses introduced in the FCC’s Open Internet ruling last year. The court said the FCC was right to reclassify broadband access services under the Title II regulations which insist on open access to the internet and that an operator cannot give priority to its own content and services, or those of partners. There are some special conditions for mobile operators, because of the capacity constraints of their spectrum, but far fewer than they believe to be necessary. The FCC ‘s Open Internet decision, agreed in February 2015, withdrew much of the ‘special treatment’ MNOs had won in the…