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“simply derivative of” the service offered to end users. Id. at
5748–49 ¶ 339.
As a result, the Commission concluded that it could
regulate interconnection arrangements under Title II as a
component of broadband service. Id. at 5686 ¶ 195. It
refrained, however, from applying the General Conduct Rule
or any of the bright-line rules to interconnection arrangements
because, given that it “lack[ed] [a] background in practices
addressing Internet traffic exchange,” it would be “premature
to adopt prescriptive rules to address any problems that have
arisen or may arise.” Id. at 5692–93 ¶ 202. Rather, it
explained that interconnection disputes would be evaluated on
a case-by-case basis under sections 201, 202, and 208 of the
Communications Act. See id. at 5686–87 ¶ 195. US Telecom
presents two challenges to the Commission’s decision to
regulate interconnection arrangements under Title II, one
procedural and one substantive. We reject both.
Echoing its arguments with respect to reclassification, US
Telecom first claims that the NPRM provided inadequate
notice that the Commission would regulate interconnection
arrangements under Title II. As we noted above, an NPRM
satisfies APA notice obligations when it “expressly ask[s] for
comments on a particular issue or otherwise ma[kes] clear
that the agency [is] contemplating a particular change.” CSX
Transportation, Inc., 584 F.3d at 1081. The NPRM did just
that. It expressly asked whether the Commission should
apply its new rules—rules which it had signaled might depend
upon Title II reclassification, NPRM, 29 FCC Rcd. at 5612
¶ 148—to interconnection arrangements.
The NPRM
explained that the 2010 Open Internet Order had applied only
“to a broadband provider’s use of its own network . . . but
[had] not appl[ied] . . . to the exchange of traffic between
networks.” NPRM, 29 FCC Rcd. at 5582 ¶ 59. Although the
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