 The FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) soliciting comments from the public on the issue on May 14, 2014.The FCC received 3.7 million comments, a substantial majority of which supported reclassifying internet to a telecommunications service and ISPs to common carriers subject to Title II regulatory authority.The FCC then went forward, reclassifying retail providers of BIAS as common carriers, and adopted revised open Internet requirements.