California PUC Says Title II Only Way to Get Net Neutrality; FCC Comments Ebb and Flow
The California Public Utilities Commission urged the FCC to keep net neutrality rules and their legal underpinnings through Communications Act Title II broadband classification. A "review of the comments has not identified any other legal basis for retaining nondiscriminatory rules,"…
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said a CPUC reply in docket 17-108. "The CPUC further agrees with commenters encouraging the FCC to act in a way that assures nothing prejudices States’ reserved authority under various provisions of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended by the 1996 Telecommunications Act." Reply comments continued to be posted this week in batches (the extended deadline is Aug. 30). Almost 1.5 million public comments were posted in the docket Tuesday, but only 569 more had been posted Wednesday by late afternoon. The cumulative total of comments is now 21.85 million.