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February 19, 2014 Matthew Berry, (202) 418-2005
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STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER AJIT PAI
ON FCC INTERNET REGULATION
Today’s announcement reminds me of the movie Groundhog Day.  In the wake of a court 
defeat, an FCC Chairman floats a plan for rules regulating Internet service providers’ network 
management practices instead of seeking guidance from Congress, all while the specter of Title 
II reclassification hovers ominously in the background.  I am skeptical that this effort will end 
any differently from the last.
When Congress told us to encourage broadband deployment by removing barriers to 
infrastructure investment, it also established the policy of the United States to “preserve the 
vibrant and competitive free market that presently exists for the Internet . . . unfettered by 
Federal or State regulation.”  Whatever the Commission does as it moves forward, it must take 
that statutory command to heart.
The Internet was free and open before the FCC adopted net neutrality rules.  It remains 
free and open today.  Net neutrality has always been a solution in search of a problem.