Public Knowledge Petitions FCC to Begin Reconsidering Trump-Era Broadband Deregulation

Public Knowledge filed a petition asking the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider the agency’s determination under Chairman Pai that its deregulatory agenda was more important than public safety, the infrastructure access necessary for broadband competition, or universal service. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals, while upholding much of the Pai FCC’s order, reversed the agency’s attempt to preempt state regulation of broadband and ordered the FCC to reconsider its approach to several important policy issues. Public Knowledge’s petition focuses on procedural and legal defects in how the FCC considered these issues.