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  "description": "FCC under Carr saved $463 million by terminating legacy contracts, the agency said.\n",
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  "publishedAt": "2025-04-29T19:03:22.000Z",
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    "_launched an aggressive deregulatory push_",
    "_restore the FCC’s spectrum auction authority_",
    "_FCC’s promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion_",
    "_separate release_",
    "_required stricter environmental reviews_",
    "_copper retirement policies_",
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  "textContent": "WASHINGTON, April 29, 2025 – At a press conference Monday, **Brendan Carr** said his first 100 days as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission delivered \"everything and more\" from his promised agenda.\n\nIn that time, Carr has _launched an aggressive deregulatory push_; pushed to _restore the FCC’s spectrum auction authority_ in Congress’s reconciliation bill; implemented measures to protect consumers, including cracking down on illegal robocalls and proposing rules to prevent excessively loud commercials; and ended the _FCC’s promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion_initiatives.\n\n“We’ve been moving very, very quickly,” Carr told reporters, touting initiatives to cut outdated rules.\n\n“We've been looking to eliminate needless regulations, including launching probably the largest deregulatory initiative at the FCC in our ‘Delete, Delete, Delete’ proceeding,” Carr said.\n\n“We have set up our own sort of internal DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) effort, and we have pulled every single contract that the FCC has,” Carr said. He pointed to a now-terminated ‘hog trapping’ contract worth approx. $60,000 a year to keep the animals off FCC properties, as an example.\n\n“We have already reduced hundreds of millions of dollars of the sort of long term spend that would have occurred under contracts that we don't think we need anymore,” he said.\n\nIn a _separate release_ Tuesday, the FCC detailed saving at least $463 million by terminating legacy agency contracts.\n\nThe release also pointed to additional achievements, including: having processed nearly 85 space station and 904 earth station applications since January 20; launching the agency’s first spectrum auction proposal in five years for the AWS-3 band; and rescinding a Biden-era proposal that would have _required stricter environmental reviews_ for cell tower projects.\n\nCarr also advanced _copper retirement policies_ – allowing AT&T to _shut down a quarter_ of its legacy wireless switching centers – and removed a Biden-era _proposal to restrict bulk billing_ for broadband in apartment buildings.\n\nIn line with Trump administration concerns about the scope of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs in the private sector, Carr has opened investigations into _Verizon_, _Comcast_, _ABC, Disney_, and others, over their diversity policies, and even _tied future merger approvals_ to the rollback of DEI programs.\n\nNational security has remained central as well: Carr opened an inquiry _into GPS backup systems_, continued _investigations into Chinese telecom providers_, and stood up a new FCC Council on National Security.\n\nLooking ahead, Carr said that copper retirement, spectrum restoration, and deeper regulatory rollbacks will drive the agency's next phase.\n\n“We're going to continue to expand on making sure that providers can invest in new high-speed networks,” Carr said at the press conference. “Copper retirement is a piece of that… I'd like to continue to create certainty so people don't have to invest limited capital in two different networks – an old copper one and a new one.”\n\nOn spectrum, Carr said talks across government were ongoing as Congress works toward reconciliation, and expressed optimism that the FCC’s auction authority will be restored. “I'm hopeful that's a place where we'll get our auction authority restored, and then we'll be further off to the races on that,” he said.\n\nCarr also highlighted the agency’s sweeping deregulatory review, noting that every FCC bureau and office completed an initial audit of existing rules, identifying which could be modified or eliminated.\n\n“I think that's going to bear a lot of fruit as well,” Carr said. “You’ve seen the themes from the first 100 days, and I think we're just going to expand action even further.”",
  "title": "100 Days of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-11T03:30:24.054Z"
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