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Protecting Against National Security Threats to the Communications Supply Chain Through the Equipment Authorization Program
The Federal Communications Commission published this final rule in the Federal Register on November 25, 2025. It took effect on December 26, 2025.
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What the agency says
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission or FCC) clarifies that rules prohibiting authorization of covered equipment include modular transmitters and adopts a prohibition on authorization of devices that include modular transmitters that are covered equipment. The Commission also adopts a procedure to limit previously granted authorizations of covered equipment to prohibit the continued importation and marketing of such equipment. It further discusses the broad scope of the prohibition on authorization of equipment identified on the Covered List by clarifying the term "produced by" as used in the Commission's rules concerning covered equipment and clarifying the prohibition on modification to previously authorized covered equipment.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-21001
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule
- Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Published
- November 25, 2025
- Takes effect
- December 26, 2025
- Dates
- Effective December 26, 2025.
- Docket
- ET Docket No. 21-232; FCC 25-71; FR ID 318540
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 47 CFR 2
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Communications; Communications equipment; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Telecommunications; Wiretapping and electronic surveillance
- Pages
- 11
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