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mobile broadband (or other computer) user can employ a
service enabling her to receive telephone calls to her IP
address. See Public Knowledge 12/19 Letter at 11 n.50
(describing a television commercial demonstrating Apple’s
Continuity service, which enables an iPhone 6 user with
mobile voice service to call an iPad user with mobile
broadband service); Use Continuity to connect your iPhone,
iPad, iPod touch, and Mac, https://support.apple.com/en-us
/HT204681 (last visited June 14, 2016) (“With Continuity,
you can make and receive cellular phone calls from your iPad,
iPod touch, or Mac when your iPhone is on the same Wi-Fi
network.”); see also Receive Google Voice calls with
Hangouts,
https://support.google.com/hangouts/answer
/6079064 (last visited June 14, 2016) (describing how the
“Google Voice” and “Hangouts” services allow mobile
broadband users to receive calls from telephone users); What
is a Skype Number?, https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA331
/what-is-a-skype-number (last visited June 14, 2016)
(describing how a “Skype Number” enables mobile
broadband users to receive calls from telephone users).
For those reasons, we reject mobile petitioners’ argument
that the Commission’s classification of mobile broadband as
an “interconnected service” is impermissible because of its
supposed implications for the classification of mobile voice.
Rather, the Commission permissibly found that mobile
broadband now qualifies as interconnected because it gives
subscribers the ability to communicate to all users of the
newly defined public switched network. In the words of the
Commission: “mobile broadband Internet access service
today, through the use of VoIP, messaging, and similar
applications, effectively gives subscribers the capability to
communicate with all NANP endpoints as well as with all
users of the Internet.” 2015 Open Internet Order, 30 FCC
Rcd. at 5787 ¶ 401.
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