AT&T and Verizon customers are hoping for justice to be served by the Supreme Court

AT&T and Verizon are contesting an FCC (Federal Communications Commission) ruling in court, claiming a violation of their constitutional right to a jury trial. But it’s the companies' customer base that is rooting for the FCC, as it turns out, hoping for the court to rule against both carriers come June.

You want to see AT&T and Verizon held accountable

According to a recent poll on the AT&T, Verizon, and FCC battle, a whopping 70 percent of you want the Supreme Court to side with the FCC. Less than 10 percent of voters said that the carriers were in the right here, and 20 percent of respondents said that the court should side with whoever manages to prove its point. Which side do you find yourself agreeing with more?

A struggle for less FCC supervision

The entire feud is an effort by the network companies to try to argue in favor of limiting the FCC’s supervision of their operations. If the Supreme Court sides with AT&T and Verizon, and rules that the FCC did, in fact, violate their constitutional rights, then future action by the FCC against carriers will slow down to a crawl. Every time the FCC will try to point out some wrongdoing on a network company’s part, it will have to sit through lengthy court sessions to get anywhere.

This outcome will favor carriers a lot, as immediate action against their policies will become almost impossible. The current battle is about these companies allegedly selling off users’ location data to aggregators, which went on to sell that data themselves to third party services without customer consent.

I’m not surprised by the results

Truthfully speaking, I am not in the slightest bit surprised that most of you want the Supreme Court to rule in favor of the FCC. Barring the fact that your data was sold off to third parties without your consent, many Americans are fatigued by carriers nowadays.

Prices are going up, employees are being laid off, everything is being digitized, and there seems to be a new headache every other week. Let’s just say that, if the Supreme Court rules in favor of the FCC, there will be a lot of happy customers, even if the ruling doesn’t directly impact their service immediately.