FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr Criticizes Biden Broadband Plan, Outlines 'Build America' Agenda

FCC's 'Build America' Agenda

• 🎯 The FCC's "Build America" agenda aims to advance core policy areas by focusing on unleashing high-speed infrastructure builds.
• 💡 Guiding principles include keeping the "Gretzky test" (looking ahead, not back) and adopting a first principles approach to regulations.

Modernizing Telecom Regulations

• 🛠️ The agenda seeks to modernize regulations that increase costs and hinder internet builds, drawing lessons from past successes.
• 🚀 In 2018, streamlining small cell regulations led to record-breaking capital investment and network buildout, exemplified by 5G deployment in Sioux Falls.

Accelerating Network Transitions

• ⚡ The FCC will vote on a rulemaking to accelerate the transition from aging copper line networks to modern high-speed ones.
• 💰 This aims to free up billions of dollars currently mandated for investment in old networks, redirecting it towards building new infrastructure.

Revising Pole Attachment Rules

• 📎 The FCC will also consider revising the agency's pole attachment rules, which govern how broadband providers attach new high-speed connections to utility poles.
• 📈 These reforms are inspired by firsthand observations of the challenges in upgrading existing infrastructure, as seen in Sioux Falls.