Public Knowledge, the Benton Foundation and more than a dozen others have asked the FCC to reconsider its decision that text messaging is a Title 1 service out of the reach of common carrier rules. That came in a petition to reconsider the Dec. 12, 2018, decision. The FCC declared, with lone Democrat Jessica Rosenworcel dissenting, that wireless text messages--SMS and MMS--are information services (Title I), not telecom services (title II), making it easier for them to compete with SnapChat and other lightly regulated instant messaging services. The item also concludes SMS and MMS are not functional equivalents of commercial mobile services.