Federal Communications Commission	FCC 25-68


STATEMENT OF
CHAIRMAN BRENDAN CARR

Re: 	Delete, Delete, Delete, GN Docket No. 25-133, Direct Final Rule (Sept. 30, 2025).

With the baseball playoffs starting today, it seems appropriate to introduce our next item with Yogi Berra’s famous line: “It’s like déjà vu all over again.”  

For the third monthly meeting in a row, we are eliminating a large tranche of regulations as part of our In Re: Delete, Delete, Delete proceeding.  Including this month’s item, we’ve now teed up for elimination about 70,000 words, 158 pages, and 803 rules and requirements from the books.

This latest round primarily targets wireline-related rules and requirements that govern obsolete technology, are duplicative, or are no longer used in practice.  We’re talking about rules that pertain to a wide variety of now-defunct topics, including antiquated distinctions between wireline carriers, technology that has been eclipsed, and dates pertaining to rate regulation, universal service, pilot programs, and equipment requirements that have long passed. 

With this latest action, we’re about halfway through the deadwood stage of our Delete campaign.  In this stage, we have been scrapping rules that have sat on the books for a long time that either were overturned by courts or just very plainly have been overtaken by events.  We have been going bureau by bureau to identify all of the low-hanging fruit rules and regulations that can be cut.

In phase two of our Delete campaign, we’re going to take some more significant, substantive whacks at the FCC rulebook.  So be prepared to continue experiencing déjà vu all over again as In re: Delete, Delete, Delete keeps on rolling. 

For their great work on this item, I’d like to thank Ed Krachmer, Matthew Baker, Audra Hale-Maddox, Lauren Garry, Kate Dumouchel, Irina Asoskov, Marv Sacks, Richard Kwiatkowski, Molly Burgdorf, Ike Ofobike, Stephen Wang, Michael Scott, Kristi Thornton, Bob Aldrich, and Mark Stone.

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