 Some legal observers believe this should allow the FCC to reclassify broadband providers as "telecommunications services" and therefore subject them to common carrier regulation.Legal scholar Annemarie Bridy predicted that the case will force the FCC's hand in reclassifying broadband providers as "telecommunications services," something which the FCC has so far resisted doing.Legal scholar Susan P. Crawford also wrote that the FCC should move now to regulate broadband providers as common carriers in order to preserve network neutrality and civic life in the United States.