42 APA, we must “determine whether the Commission’s actions were ‘arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law.’” Verizon, 740 F.3d at 635 (quoting 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A)). As noted at the outset of our opinion, “[o]ur role in this regard is a limited one, and we will not substitute our judgment for that of the agency.” EarthLink, Inc. v. FCC, 462 F.3d 1, 9 (D.C. Cir. 2006). Provided that the Commission has “articulate[d] . . . a ‘rational connection between the facts found and the choice made,’” we will uphold its decision. Verizon, 740 F.3d at 643–44 (alteration in original) (quoting State Farm, 463 U.S. at 52) (some internal quotation marks omitted); see also FERC v. Electric Power Supply Ass’n, 136 S. Ct. 760, 784 (2016) (“Our important but limited role is to ensure that [the agency] engaged in reasoned decisionmaking—that it weighed competing views, selected [an approach] with adequate support in the record, and intelligibly explained the reasons for making that choice.”). As relevant here, “[t]he APA’s requirement of reasoned decision-making ordinarily demands that an agency acknowledge and explain the reasons for a changed interpretation.” Verizon, 740 F.3d at 636. “An agency may not, for example, depart from a prior policy sub silentio or simply disregard rules that are still on the books.” FCC v. Fox Television Stations, Inc., 556 U.S. 502, 515 (2009). That said, although the agency “must show that there are good reasons for the new policy[,] . . . it need not demonstrate to a court’s satisfaction that the reasons for the new policy are better than the reasons for the old one.” Id. US Telecom contends that the Commission lacked good reasons for reclassifying broadband because “as Verizon made clear, and as the [Commission] originally recognized, it could have adopted appropriate Open Internet rules based upon

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