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Commission “tentatively conclude[d] that [it] should maintain
this approach, . . . [the NPRM sought] comment on whether
[the Commission] should change [its] conclusion.” Id.
US Telecom insists that the NPRM was nonetheless
inadequate because it nowhere suggested that the Commission
might justify regulating interconnection arrangements under
Title II on the basis that they are a component of the offering
of telecommunications to end users. Under the APA, an
NPRM provides adequate notice as long as it reveals the
“substance of the proposed rule or a description of the
subjects and issues involved.” 5 U.S.C. § 553(b)(3). An
NPRM does so if it “provide[s] sufficient factual detail and
rationale for the rule to permit interested parties to comment
meaningfully.” Honeywell International, Inc., 372 F.3d at
445 (internal quotation marks omitted). Again, the NPRM
did just that. It asked whether the Commission should expand
its reach beyond “a broadband provider’s use of its own
network” in order to “ensure that a broadband provider would
not be able to evade our open Internet rules by engaging in
traffic exchange practices.” NPRM, 29 FCC Rcd. at 5582
¶ 59. By focusing on the threat that broadband providers
might block edge provider access to end users at an earlier
point in the transmission pathway, the NPRM allowed
interested parties to comment meaningfully on the possibility
that the Commission would consider interconnection
arrangements to be part of the offering of telecommunications
to end users. Indeed, interested parties interpreted the NPRM
as presenting just that possibility. To take one example,
COMPTEL explained in its comments that “as feared by the
Commission in its [NPRM], a [broadband] provider can
simply evade the Commission’s 2010 rules by moving its
demand for an access fee upstream to the entry point to the
[broadband provider’s network].” Letter from Markham C.
Erickson, Counsel to COMPTEL, to Marlene H. Dortch,
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