FCC Announces Tentative Agenda for July 2025 Open Meeting

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced the tentative agenda for the July Open Commission Meeting scheduled for July 24, 2025. 

1. Accelerating Upgrade Away from Old Copper Line Networks: The FCC will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that proposes and seeks comment on revisions to the Commission’s network change disclosure rules and section 214(a) discontinuance processes to eliminate regulatory barriers and costs, thus encouraging the swift transition to IPbased networks and advanced communications services for consumers.
2. Removing Barriers to Broadband Deployment and Investment: The FCC will consider a Fifth Report and Order, a Fourth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and Orders on Reconsideration to promote broadband infrastructure deployment by ensuring greater collaboration between utilities and attachers, establishing a timeline for large pole attachment requests, implementing other improvements to the pole attachment timeline, and speeding up the contractor approval process.
3. Moving Closer to AWS-3 Spectrum Auction: The FCC will consider a Report and Order and Second Report and Order that would update 10-year-old AWS-3 service-specific designated entity eligibility requirements to bring those requirements, along with related eligibility requirements contained in the Part 1 competitive bidding rules, in line with current auction practice. 
4. Streamlined Repeal of Outdated and Obsolete Rules: The FCC will consider a Direct Final Rule that would repeal certain rules identified as outdated and obsolete via a direct final rule procedure and clarify the potential use of the direct final rule procedure in other circumstances in the future.
5. Improved Truth-in-Billing and Slamming Rules: The FCC will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking proposing to modernize and simplify the Commission’s slamming and Truth-in-Billing rules to reflect the evolution of the telecommunications marketplace, retain core consumer protections against unauthorized carrier switches and charges, and reduce regulatory burdens that can stifle innovation.
6. 988 Text Georouting to Improve Access to the 988 Lifeline: The FCC will consider a Report and Order that would adopt rules to require wireless providers to transmit data that enables text messages sent to the 988 Lifeline to be routed to the closest local crisis center based on a person’s general geographic location.