The ink has not even dried on the Federal Communications Commission's rules to protect Internet access, and already claims of violations started surfacing.

There are many examples like consumer groups saying that Metro PCS, the wireless provider is blocking services such as Level 3 ,Skype and Voxel, two behind-the-scenes companies that carry Internet traffic, stated that Comcast has raised prices unfairly for them to give online videos to home subscribers.

The companies against whom the charges are brought stated that nothing is true. But these first tests of the new rules have been very troublesome for Internet access major Verizon Communications, which filed case against the FCC in the last week wanting to have the rules overturned. Verizon wants to nip in the bud what it feels could be more regulatory monitoring.

A Verizon spokesman said that they looked at what was happening with Level 3 , Metro PCS and other noise around the matter and were worried that regulatory oversight would expand further into new areas,

The legal challenge was not unexpected and the FCC is likely to face many more courtroom tussling over its so-called net neutrality order. The Internet access rule restricts carriers from blocking or randomly slowing the transmission of any particular Web traffic into consumers' homes.

Access providers stated that the FCC had crossed its boundary, pointing out one federal appeals court decision in last April that upturned the agency's sanctions against Comcast for blocking file sharing between subscribers.

The FCC has stated that they were on sound legal footing, and taken examples of various parts of telecommunications laws to justify new rules.

Rebecca Arbogast, an analyst working at Stifel Nicolaus stated that both companies and customers will have to get more accustomed to living in a world with a basic set of net-neutrality rules.