WASHINGTON — Tough new regulations for Internet traffic went into effect Friday after federal judges declined to stop them, beginning a new era of oversight that already has reverberated through the online ecosystem. Average users won't notice much of a difference at first, but in the background, broadband network owners are scrambling to come to grips with other aspects of the net neutrality rules approved in February. Companies, for instance, have been scrambling to strike agreements covering key interconnection points — how they pass along one another's traffic — on the network before the Federal Communications Commission gains new authority over those deals under the...
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