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[WC Docket Nos. 25-208, 25-209; FCC 26-19; FR ID 370342] Reducing Barriers to Network Improvements and Service Changes, Accelerating Network Modernization
The Federal Communications Commission published this final rule in the Federal Register on October 1, 2026. It took effect on October 15, 2026.
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What the agency says
In this document, the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) announces that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has approved the information collection associated with the Commission's revised network change disclosure and service discontinuance rules in a Report and Order, which stated that the revised rules would not become effective until OMB completed its review of any information collection requirements under the Paperwork Reduction Act and that the Bureau would announce the effective date for the revised rules by subsequent Public Notice.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2026-20192
- Type
- Final rule
- Action
- Final rule; announcement of effective date
- Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Published
- October 1, 2026
- Takes effect
- October 15, 2026
- Dates
- The amendments to Sec. Sec. 51.329, 51.333, 63.60, 63.62(a), (b), and (d), 63.63, 63.71, and 63.602, published at 91 FR 20913, April 20, 2026, are effective on October 15, 2026.
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 47 CFR 51; 47 CFR 63
- Topics
- Authority delegations (Government agencies); Cable television; Communications; Communications common carriers; Organization and functions (Government agencies); Radio; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements; Telecommunications; Telegraph; Telephone
- Pages
- 7
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