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¶ 399—must still be classified as a “private” mobile service,
broadband users may no longer experience “the same Internet
openness protections no matter what technology they use to
access the Internet.” Id. at 5638 ¶ 92.
C.
Mobile petitioners also challenge the sufficiency of the
Commission’s notice, particularly with respect to its
redefinition of the public switched network as well as its
removal of the word “all” from the definition of
interconnected service. As noted above, the APA requires
that an NPRM “include . . . either the terms or substance of
the proposed rule or a description of the subjects and issues
involved.” 5 U.S.C. § 553(b). But the APA also requires us
to take “due account” of “the rule of prejudicial error.” Id.
§ 706.
A deficiency of notice is harmless if the challengers had
actual notice of the final rule, Small Refiner Lead PhaseDown Task Force v. EPA, 705 F.2d 506, 549 (D.C. Cir.
1983), or if they cannot show prejudice in the form of
arguments they would have presented to the agency if given a
chance, Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Ass’n v.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 494 F.3d 188,
202 (D.C. Cir. 2007). Both circumstances are present here,
and each independently supports our conclusion that any lack
of notice was ultimately harmless. As such, we need not
decide whether the Commission gave adequate notice of its
redefinition of the public switched network in the NPRM.
As mobile petitioners acknowledge, Vonage raised the
idea of redefining the public switched network in its
comments, pointing out the Commission’s “authority to
interpret the key terms in th[e] definition [of commercial
mobile service], including ‘interconnected’ and ‘public
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