A three-judge federal panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit heard oral arguments on Feb. 1 about whether the Federal Communications Commission had acted properly when it had reclassified ISPs under Title II of the Communications Act. Previously in 2015, the FCC had changed the classification of ISPs from Title II to Title I.
A group of plaintiffs, ranging from advocacy groups, content providers led by Mozilla and 22 state attorneys general, argued that the FCC had been wrong when it changed the classification to Title II, as an information service, instead of Title I, a telecommunications service.
