Anna Gomez, President Joe Biden's nominee for the open Democratic seat on the Federal Communications Commission, told a Senate Commerce Committee nomination hearing panel Thursday she supports reclassifying internet access as a Title II telecommunications service.
Currently, the FCC classifies internet access as an information service under Title I of the Communications Act, and not subject to common-carrier/open access regulations. That occurred after network neutrality regulations approved under Obama-era Democratic chair Tom Wheeler were then unapproved by the succeeding Republican majority under Trump-era chair Ajit Pai.
