It will be interesting how it unfolds...... (As Pai Used to work for Verizon) Pai, who has served as an FCC commissioner since 2012, will likely set a very different agenda than his predecessor. The former Verizon lawyer and Justice Department employee favors a more hands-off role for the FCC. He opposed most of the agency’s major reforms during his tenure, including the sweeping net neutrality regulations passed in 2015, as well as the agency’s more recent broadband privacy protections and the now delayed and likely dead cable box reforms. Now the new Republican-led FCC will likely work to roll back much of the previous administration’s accomplishments.