March 16, 2017
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The United States Telecom Association (“USTelecom”) respectfully files this reply in support of its petition for reconsideration (“petition” or “PFR”) of the Commission’s Order.1 Like the Order itself, the oppositions to the petition avoid genuine engagement with the reasons we have given for aligning the Commission’s privacy regime with that of the Federal Trade Commission. The oppositions are thus meritless for the same reason that the Order is a textbook case of arbitrary and capricious decision-making. The Commission should now do what it should have done already: conduct a genuine cost-benefit analysis and revise its rules to avoid unfounded inconsistency with the FTC’s well-established and generally applicable framework.