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openness.” In re Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet
(“NPRM”), 29 FCC Rcd. 5561, 5563 ¶ 4 (2014). After
receiving nearly four million comments, the Commission
promulgated the order at issue in this case, the 2015 Open
Internet Order. 30 FCC Rcd. at 5624 ¶ 74.
The Order consists of three components. First, the
Commission reclassified both fixed and mobile “broadband
Internet access service” as telecommunications services. Id.
at 5743–44 ¶ 331.
For purposes of the Order, the
Commission defined “broadband Internet access service” as
“a mass-market retail service by wire or radio that provides
the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or
substantially all Internet endpoints, including any capabilities
that are incidental to and enable the operation of the
communications service, but excluding dial-up Internet access
service.” Id. at 5745–46 ¶ 336 (footnote omitted). Because
the Commission concluded that the telecommunications
service offered to end users necessarily includes the
arrangements that broadband providers make with other
networks to exchange traffic—commonly referred to as
“interconnection
arrangements”—the
Commission
determined that Title II would apply to those arrangements as
well. Id. at 5686 ¶ 195. The Commission also reclassified
mobile broadband service, which it had previously deemed a
“private mobile service,” exempt from common carrier
regulation, as a “commercial mobile service,” subject to such
regulation. Id. at 5778 ¶ 388.
In the Order’s second component, the Commission
carried out its statutory mandate to forbear “from applying
any regulation or any provision” of the Communications Act
if it determines that the provision is unnecessary to ensure just
and reasonable service or protect consumers and determines
that forbearance is “consistent with the public interest.” 47
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