Chairman Carr Highlights Wins Delivered in 2025

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr summarized some of the FCC’s key wins in 2025. They include:

• Streamlined the process for retiring decades-old copper networks.
• Approved Verizon’s $20 billion acquisition of Frontier, and Metronet’s transfer of five subsidiaries to T-Mobile. These transactions unleash billions of dollars in new infrastructure builds, and deliver significant wins for America’s tower and telecom crews.
• Proposed to auction up to 180 megahertz of prime, mid-band spectrum in the Upper C-band by July 2027—exceeding the 100 MHz minimum set by Congress.
• Deleted nearly 400 wireless regulations that are obsolete, unused, or duplicative.
• Ended expansion of COVID spending program to fund school bus Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Hotspots through E-Rate program.