Worth Rises, a nonprofit organization, has criticized the Federal Communications Commission for delaying the implementation of new rules capping phone rates for incarcerated individuals, and is instead rewarding the prison telecom corporations and their profit-sharing partners.

As part of an initiative to purge its own regulations, the FCC says it’s removed rules (that hadn’t taken effect) to reclassify broadband providers as common carriers. They were already struck down by a federal appeals court,

At over 2,000 square feet in size, the FM1 satellite is designed to be roughly three times larger than the company's existing BlueBird satellites currently in orbit.

"I would encourage PBS & NPR to focus more on how they managed to lose America’s trust. That is their problem, not Congress’s work to ensure good stewardship of taxpayer dollars," Carr says

The Federal Communications Commission has been entangled in politics for decades, but this may be a new low experts say.

The FCC has postponed rules that would have lowered the cost of prison and jail phone calls for at least two more years, sparking outrage from justice advocates who argue the delay is a betrayal of working-class families and allows telecom companies and correctional officials to lobby for changes to the original reforms.

The FCC is requesting information from the public about their experiences during the May 2025 outage of Cellcom, a wireless service provider. According to Cellcom, the outage resulted from a cyber incident,

T-Mobile US Inc. has rolled back policies related to diversity, equity, and inclusion to appease the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, who has made clear that merger deals won’t be approved without taking such steps.

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission delivered his first major speech in his new role with the Trump administration, announcing six priorities he plans to focus on.