FCC Struggled over Broadband After 'Comcast' Ruling, Aide Says

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"A lot of back and forth, a lot of angst" resulted inside the FCC from dealing with the Comcast ndecision, said Sherrese Smith, an aide to Chairman Julius Genachowski. Trying to keep nregulating Internet access under Title I could create uncertainty for investors and consumers nthrough long court fights, and "Congress probably did not intend for broadband to be under" a nTitle II common carrier framework, she said. Genachowski's "third way" calls for n"reclassification under Title II," with forbearance on the "very onerous" obligations in the title, nSmith said at the Legal Frontiers in Digital Media conference at Stanford University. Asked nabout coverage of wireless broadband, Smith said only, "I think we'll be working on that."