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issues surrounding the redefinition of public switched
network. See AT&T 2/13 Letter at 1 (noting a meeting with
representatives from Commissioners O’Rielly’s and Pai’s
offices on February 11, 2015); CTIA 1/14 Letter at 1 (noting a
meeting with representatives from Commissioner Pai’s office
on January 12, 2015); CTIA 12/22 Letter at 1 (noting a
meeting with representatives from the Commission’s General
Counsel’s office and representatives from the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau on December 18, 2014); CTIA
10/17 Letter at 1 (noting a meeting with the Commission’s
General Counsel and a representative from the Wireline
Competition Bureau on October 15, 2014). Thus, even if the
redefinition of public switched network was a “novel
proposal” by Vonage during the comment period, it is clear
from mobile petitioners’ own letters that they had actual
notice that the Commission was considering adoption of that
proposal. See National Mining Ass’n v. Mine Safety & Health
Administration, 116 F.3d 520, 531–32 (D.C. Cir. 1997).
In addition, in those letters, letters from others supporting
mobile petitioners’ views, and responsive letters from groups
like New America’s Open Technology Institute and Public
Knowledge, mobile petitioners engaged in a detailed,
substantive back-and-forth about the precise issues they
challenge here. Reclassification of mobile broadband and
redefinition of the public switched network were the focal
points of that discussion, in which petitioners exchanged
arguments about technology and policy with the groups
supporting a broader definition of the public switched
network. See Letters from CTIA and AT&T, supra; Letter
from Michael Calabrese, Open Technology Institute, to
Marlene H. Dortch, FCC, GN Dkt. Nos. 14-28 & 10-127 (Jan.
27, 2015); Letter from Harold Feld, Public Knowledge, to
Marlene H. Dortch, FCC, GN Dkt. Nos. 14-28 & 10-127 (Jan.
15, 2015); Letter from William H. Johnson, Verizon, to
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