It could take until mid-October for the FCC...
It could take until mid-October for the FCC to finish posting online all net neutrality comments filed before the Sept. 15 NPRM replies deadline, meaning it will have taken a month to post them all, an FCC spokeswoman told us.…
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The agency posted comments in docket 14-28 on Thursday that were filed at the deadline 10 days earlier. Normally, converting comments into a PDF file and then having them reviewed by the Office of the Secretary takes a couple of hours, the spokeswoman said. “However, the conversion process does not scale to handle the 3.7 million comments received in this proceeding.” Comments in other proceedings are processed along with net neutrality filings, so there could be slight delay in posting, the spokeswoman said.