FCC Chairman Carr Highlights Wins Delivered During First 100 Days

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr released a summary of "some of the key wins the FCC and its staff have delivered during the first 100 days." Highlights include:

• Ended the FCC’s promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion by eliminating the FCC’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advisory group and task force, rescinding the FCC’s equity action plan, striking diversity, equity, and inclusion from FCC strategic priorities as well as its annual budget and performance plans.
• Launched a massive deregulatory initiative titled “In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete,” in which the FCC is examining every rule, regulation, or guidance document to eliminate unnecessary regulatory burdens.
• Made it easier for providers to invest in new, high-speed networks by allowing them to use streamlined procedures when they apply to discontinue old copper telephone lines.
• Enabled providers to retire legacy copper networks in a greater number of cases.
• Started a proceeding that looks at creative ways to allow more intensive use of 600 megahertz of spectrum in the Lower 37 GHz Band.