Ok, so this is a pretty useful answer that's starting to clear things up a bit for me. Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Sometime in the 2000s, ISPs were c

Ok, so this is a pretty useful answer that's starting to clear things up a bit for me. Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Sometime in the 2000s, ISPs were classified as Title I entities. Then in 2010, there was an "open internet order" that tried to enforce Net Neutrality in some new way, which the DC courts shot down when Verizon (represented by Mr. Pai) sued over it, saying that Title I didn’t give FCC the authority to regulate in the way that it was trying to in 2010. So then they reclassified ISPs as common carriers e.g. under Title II, so they could impose the same rules that existed in 2010. So, what I'm still confused about: 1. Prior to 2015, were ISPs ever actually considered common carriers? 2. Did any regulation or legislation exist prior to the "FCC Open Internet Order 2010" that served the same explicitly stated purpose (FCC chairmen saying similar, nice sounding things without actually having the force of law doesn't count)?