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phone
and
cable
company
broadband
service
provides, . . . must be made on a local market-by-market
basis.” Full Service Network Pet’rs’ Br. 15 (emphasis
omitted). We have addressed that argument above, and Full
Service Network makes no other section 10(b) argument.
Because Full Service Network never presents in its briefs the
arguments made by the partial dissent, those arguments lie
outside the scope of our review.
VI.
We turn next to petitioners’ challenges to the particular
rules adopted by the Commission. As noted earlier, the
Commission promulgated five rules in the Order: rules
banning (i) blocking, (ii) throttling, and (iii) paid
prioritization, 2015 Open Internet Order, 30 FCC Rcd. at
5647 ¶ 110; (iv) a General Conduct Rule, id. at 5660 ¶ 136;
and (v) an enhanced transparency rule, id. at 5669–82 ¶¶ 154–
85. Petitioners Alamo and Berninger (together, Alamo)
challenge the anti-paid-prioritization rule as beyond the
Commission’s authority. US Telecom challenges the General
Conduct Rule as unconstitutionally vague. We reject both
challenges.
A.
In its challenge to the anti-paid-prioritization rule,
petitioner Alamo contends that, even with reclassification of
broadband as a telecommunications service, the Commission
lacks authority to promulgate such a rule under section
201(b) of Title II and section 303(b) of Title III. The
Commission, however, grounded the rules in “multiple,
complementary sources of legal authority”—not only Titles II
and III, but also section 706 of the Telecommunications Act
of 1996 (now codified at 47 U.S.C. § 1302). Id. at 5720–21
¶¶ 273–74. As to section 706, this court concluded in Verizon
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