Public Interest Groups Seek Extension for Broadband Label Comments
New America’s Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society and the Utility Reform Network urged the FCC to delay comment deadlines 30 days for an NPRM proposing various changes to the agency's broadband label rules. Comments are due Jan. 2, replies Feb.2, in docket 22-2.
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In a filing posted Monday, the groups noted the “logjam” of comments following the federal shutdown and the fact that the initial deadline falls during a holiday week. The commission also “requests comment on several questions of legal authority, including its tentative conclusions that it lacks the statutory authority to sustain several of the requirements it proposes to eliminate, the extent of its statutory authority to address concerns of transparency and competition generally, and the applicability and implication of the First Amendment to the requirements,” they said, and more time to address these difficult questions would be helpful.