September 2025 Open Federal Communications Commission Meeting

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced that the items below are tentatively on the agenda for the September Open Commission Meeting scheduled for Tuesday, September 30, 2025: 

1. Accelerating Wireline Infrastructure Buildout: The FCC 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.
2. Freeing Wireless Infrastructure from Unlawful Regulatory Burdens: 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.
3. Phone Jamming Solutions in Non-Federal Correctional Facilities: The FCC 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. 
4. Modernizing Broadcast Ownership Rules: 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.
5. Deleting Obsolete and Duplicative Wireline Rules: The FCC 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.