Consumer Institute Urges FCC to Allow Quicker Copper Retirements
The American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research urged the FCC to forbear from enforcing Communication Act Section 214 requirements in reply comments in the agency's copper retirement proceeding (see 2510010031). Carriers continue to build new networks “but are slowed…
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by … outdated regulations,” said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 25-208. The FCC should update requirements “to bring them in line with the modern communications marketplace.” Industry has abandoned copper lines following the development of faster and more reliable technologies, but regulatory requirements remain, the group argued.