An Update on the Volume of Open Internet Comments Submitted to the FCC

September 15 concluded the second round of comments for the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet Proceeding. During the last four months, the FCC has received a large number of comments from a wide range of constituents via three methods.

Throughout the two rounds of public comment, and despite the age of the FCC’s IT systems, the FCC IT team worked around the clock and implemented workaround solutions to scale the large volume of comments in order to keep the system up and running, ensuring the public could submit feedback to the FCC leading up to the comment deadline. The record number of comments the FCC received on this proceeding underscores the importance of the open Internet.