'Name a common carrier.' I can still picture you looking at your exam paper and humming a few bars of Chattanooga Choo Choo.

我现在都还清楚地记得你看了看试卷，然后小声地哼起一小节‘查塔努加火车’。

But in 2015, instead of backing down, the FCC, under Obama-appointed chairman Tom Wheeler, reclassified ISPs as common carriers, essentially turning them into a public utility.

但在 2015 年， 在奥巴马任命的主席汤姆惠勒的领导下， 美国联邦通信委员会没有退缩，而是将互联网服务提供商重新归类为公共运营商， 从根本上将其转变为公共事业。

In some cases the state legislature fixed the maximum rates to be charged by common carriers, and in other cases commissions were created with the power to establish the rates after an investigation.

在某些情况下， 州立法机构规定了公共承运人收取的最高费率，而在其他情况下， 成立了委员会， 有权在调查后确定费率。