Verizon Fails in Bid to Block Mobile Roaming Order

Verizon Wireless' effort to overturn a Federal Communications Commission order requiring it and AT&T to make deals allowing customers of smaller providers to use the bigger companies' networks for data connection while roaming failed on Tuesday.

The unanimous decision, made by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, rejected Verizon's argument that the FCC was out-of-bounds in regulating mobile service providers when it green-lighted the arrangement last year. Instead, the court found the FCC was acting legally in requiring Verizon and AT&T to strike deals in commercially reasonable terms.

What does the decision mean for customers?

At its core, the FCC…
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