23 FCC Proceedings to Streamline, Abolish, Eliminate, Remove… with a Hidden Agenda.
This story supplies the collection of Chairman Carr Proceedings that were presented and released from March through September 2025. There was over 29 different proceedings; we focus on these 23 proceedings and related issues that we believe have an underlying hidden agenda.
NOTE: The latest will be presented September 30, 2025.
Can You Figure Out: How are these 23 proceedings all tied together? What is the hidden agenda? How many ‘adverse comments’ will the IRREGULATORS have in these 20+ proceedings?
The snippets are all directly from the FCC’s documents; we only added the category — - wireline, spectrum, etc.
We ask the reader to join in figuring out how these different actions are working towards an underlying but not obvious plan, and watch how many of the IRREGULATORS comments will be considered “Adverse Comments”, and require the FCC to re-evaluate their position based on facts presented to protect the public interest.
See our previous Medium articles for clues to the hidden agenda and our next filings.
Let us start.
This is a list of the proceedings since March 2025, which starts with 4 tied together proceedings that had no comments period and no full commission review. As we will discuss, we filed an ‘application for review’ which we will explain.
Link to all FCC Open Meetings and documents discussed below
MARCH 2025: NO DUE PROCESS
1) WIRELINE Adopts a clarification that will enable providers to use streamlined procedures more often when they apply to discontinue copper lines. GN 13–5, DA 25–248
2) WIRELINE Adopts a waiver that allows providers to retire copper networks, not only in cases where replacement voice services are available on a stand-alone basis, but in cases WC. 17–84, DA 25–248
3) WIRELINE Adopts an order that waives unnecessary requirements that kicked in whenever a provider “grandfathered” a legacy service — meaning, they stopped WC Docket №17–84 DA 25–251
4) WIRELINE: Adopts an order that waives costly and excessive notice requirements in cases where they provide no demonstrable benefit. 17–84
5) WIRELINE HIDDEN: FCC claims that it had “processed more than 400 network change disclosure filings and not once has the FCC received a comment in opposition.”
6) WIRELINE: THESE WERE PRESENTED AS A GROUP — NO DUE PROCESS FOR 4 PROCEEDINGS
These are all related to ‘shutting off the copper’ wires, but notice that each one takes a specific slice, one removes the requirement for notification, while another claims that out of 400 processed actions to shut off the copper wires in a specific location, there were no complaints. It was clear that the FCC had designed the process to stymie anyone attempting to find out how a customer could file a complaint; thus, the deregulation was based on a complaint process no one could use to complain.
7) DUE PROCESS: DELETE, DELETE, DELETE. “The FCC has opened a new docket in which the agency seeks comment on every rule, regulation, or guidance document that the FCC should eliminate for the purposes of alleviating unnecessary regulatory burdens.”
APRIL 2025
8) SPECTRUM: Modernizing Spectrum Sharing for Satellite Broadband
efficient spectrum sharing between geostationary and non-geostationary satellite systems.
9) SPECTRUM The Commission considered a Report and Order, Sixth Report and Order, and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking establishing a licensing framework for use of the 37–37.6 GHz band (Lower 37 GHz band).
10) SPECTRUM SATELLITE WIRELESS Opening Up Spectrum for Satellite Broadband -alternative or a complement to the previous proposals for terrestrial i
JUNE 2025
11) WIRELINE CABLE FCC Approves Rules to Remove and Streamline Cable Rate Regulations. The Commission considered a Report and Order that would promote competition and economic growth by simplifying and streamlining burdensome cable rate regulations, eliminating unnecessary forms and rules, deregulating certain cable equipment and small cable systems, limiting regulation to residential subscribers, and otherwise reducing regulatory burdens. (MB Docket №02–144; MM Docket Nos. 92–266, 93–215; CS Docket №94–28)
JULY 2025
At the July 24th FCC open meeting, Chairman Brendan Carr claimed that it was important to push through a series of deregulatory favors and it was based on the fact that one provider — AT&T, had only 5% of its customers using their copper networks and that the company was spending a whopping $6 billion on maintenance.
Having participated in these specific proceedings for over a decade, the numbers being repeated by the FCC were leaving out an estimated 50 million copper based lines that should have been included. Moreover, the amount of money to maintain the copper wires was a fraction of the listed expenses. In 2017 and 2018 statements by then Chairman Ajit Pai, detailed that it only cost $45-$50 a year to maintain a copper line.
50 Million Copper Access Lines Appear to be Missing from the FCC’s Analysis. Who Does It Benefit? Why It Matters? Where’s the Audits?
$5.85 Billion Dollar Discrepancy in FCC Chairman Carr’s New Investments when the Copper is Shut Off.
12) WIRELINE DISCLOSURE Accelerating Upgrade Away from Old Copper Line Networks –seeks comment on network change disclosure rules and section 214(a)
13) WIRELINE POLES Removing Barriers to Broadband Deployment and Investment greater collaboration between utilities and attaches, establishing a timeline for large pole attachment requests,
14) SPECTRUM Moving Closer to AWS-3 Spectrum Auction –The Commission will consider a AWS-3 service-
15) WIRELINE DELETE Streamlined Repeal of Outdated and Obsolete Rules — The Commission 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
16) BILLING Improved Truth-in-Billing and Slamming Rules — The Commission
AUGUST 2025
17) WIRELINE: WIRELESS NEPA Review to Accelerate Infrastructure Deployment — The Commission environmental rules to ensure they comport with the amended National Environmental WIRELESS SATELLIT Streamlining
18) WIRELESS SATELLITE Space Bureau Reviews — The Commission will the space economy by taking measures to expedite the application processes for space
19) WIRELINE 706: Evaluating the Deployment of Advanced Telecommunications The of whether advanced telecom capability is being deployed to all Americans
Refreshing the Record: 27 Years of FCC Filings and Complaints in the Section 706 Advanced Network and Related Proceedings by New Networks Institute, Teletruth and the IRREGULATORS.
20) WIRELINE BDS Business Data Services Pricing Regulations * — The Commission will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking .
September 30th, 2025 Open Meeting
21) WIRELINE: Accelerating Wireline Infrastructure Buildout; 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, (WC Docket №25–253
22) WIRELINE: Deleting Obsolete and Duplicative Wireline Rules (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, GN Docket №25–133)
23) WIRELESS: Freeing Wireless Infrastructure from Unlawful Regulatory Burdens 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. WT Docket №25276)
ANSWER: The Verizon New York 2024 Annual Report, published May 21, 2025 directly contradicts every aspect of these September 30th, 2025 proceedings.
The Verizon New York 2024 Annual Report Just Came Out and It Contradicts Everything; Common Wisdom Is Wrong.
We will be going through the hidden agenda in the upcoming stories, but it is clear that what is being presented is in conflict with the public interest.
