On September 23, 2025, the FCC released the Agenda for the September Open Meeting, scheduled for September 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM. The meeting can be viewed in person at the FCC’s headquarters, online at www.fcc.gov/live, or on the Commission’s YouTube channel. The Commission is scheduled to consider the following items:
- Accelerating Wireline Infrastructure Buildout (WC Docket No. 25-253) – The Commission will consider a Notice of Inquiry that would examine whether state and local statutes, regulations, and legal requirements have an unlawful prohibitive effect on the provision of wireline telecommunications services, particularly through the imposition of excessive delays and fees that impede infrastructure deployments and disincentivize investments in them. (FACT SHEET)
- Freeing Wireless Infrastructure from Unlawful Regulatory Burdens (WT Docket No. 25-276) – The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that advances its Build America Agenda by seeking comment on reforms that would free towers and other wireless infrastructure from unlawful regulatory burdens imposed at the state and local level. (FACT SHEET)
- Phone Jamming Solutions in Non-Federal Correctional Facilities (GN Docket No. 13-111) – The Commission will consider a Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment on removing regulatory barriers to deployment and viability of existing and developing technologies that combat contraband wireless device use in correctional facilities. (FACT SHEET)
- Modernizing Broadcast Ownership Rules (MB Docket No. 22-459) – The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would advance the Commission’s quadrennial regulatory review of its broadcast ownership rules and seek public comment on whether, given the current state of the media marketplace, it should retain, modify, or eliminate any of these rules. (FACT SHEET)
- Deleting Obsolete and Duplicative Wireline Rules (GN Docket No. 25-133) – The Commission will consider as part of the In re: Delete, Delete, Delete proceeding a Direct Final Rule that would move to delete nearly 400 primarily wireline-related rules and requirements that govern obsolete technology, are duplicative, and are no longer used in practice. These rules pertain to a wide variety of now-defunct topics including regulatory reporting requirements, distinctions between wireline carriers that are no longer applied, technology that has been eclipsed, and dates pertaining to pricing, universal service, pilot programs, and equipment requirements that have long ago passed. (FACT SHEET)
- Modernizing the E-Rate Program for Schools and Libraries (WC Docket No. 13-184) – The Commission will consider a Declaratory Ruling that would align E-Rate eligibility with section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and clarify that the provision of Wi-Fi, or other similar access point technologies, including the equipment needed to provide such service, on school buses is ineligible for E-Rate funding.
- Addressing the Homework Gap through the E-Rate Program (WC Docket No. 21-31) – The Commission will consider an Order on Reconsideration that grants a petition for reconsideration and finds that section 254 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, does not permit the funding of off-premises use of Wi-Fi hotspots and Internet services and makes them ineligible for E-Rate support.
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