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Marlene H. Dortch, FCC, GN Dkt. Nos. 14-28 & 10-127
(Dec. 24, 2014); Public Knowledge 12/19 Letter; Letter from
Michael E. Glover, Verizon, to Marlene H. Dortch, FCC, GN
Dkt. Nos. 14-28 & 10-127 (Oct. 29, 2014); OTI 12/11 Letter;
Letter from William H. Johnson, Verizon, to Marlene H.
Dortch, FCC, GN Dkt. Nos. 14-28 & 10-127 (Oct. 17, 2014).
In those exchanges, mobile petitioners raised and fiercely
debated all of the same arguments they now raise before us,
thus demonstrating not only the presence of actual notice, but
also the absence of new arguments they might present to the
Commission on remand.
Indeed, when asked at oral
argument, mobile petitioners could not list any new argument
on the issue of the redefinition of public switched network.
See Oral Arg. Tr. 74–79, 84–87.
Mobile petitioners also allege that the Commission gave
inadequate notice of the removal of “all” from the definition
of interconnected service. Any such failure, however, was
also harmless.
As noted above, not only does the
Commission claim that the removal of “all” was
inconsequential to the regulation, but that adjustment also has
no bearing on our decision to uphold the Commission’s
reclassification decision.
We would uphold the
Commission’s decision regardless of whether the Commission
validly removed “all” from the definition of “interconnected
service.” Mobile petitioners thus cannot show prejudice from
any lack of notice. See Steel Manufacturers Ass’n v. EPA, 27
F.3d 642, 649 (D.C. Cir. 1994) (explaining that inability to
comment on one rationale for rule was harmless when agency
had “adequate and independent grounds” for rule).
Mobile petitioners, for those reasons, fail to show the
prejudice required by the APA to succeed on their arguments
of insufficient notice. We therefore reject their challenges.
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