Federal Communications Commission	"FCC  XX-XXX"


STATEMENT OF
CHAIRMAN BRENDAN CARR

Re: 	Delete, Delete, Delete, Direct Final Rule, GN Docket No. 25-133 (December 18, 2025)

Our Delete, Delete, Delete proceeding—the most ambitious deregulatory initiative in FCC history—set out to identify and eliminate rules that no longer served the public interest.  We launched Delete in March and started our first phase in June to target deadwood regulations at scale.  

In just six months, the FCC’s team has delivered unprecedented results.  With today’s item, we have cumulatively eliminated or teed up for removal more than 1,100 rules and requirements, totaling over 134,000 words and 300 pages across nine items.  So far, we have deleted: 

· Rules for prehistoric technologies—like telegraph, rabbit-ear receivers, and phone booths; 
· Requirements adopted in a bygone era—like cable-rate regulation; 
· Illegal government overreaches—like Title II controls on the broadband industry; 
· Regulations on defunct services; and 
· Mandates that expired or sunset years ago—like auction procedures from the 3G era.  

And today, we eliminate 36 rule provisions—more than 12,000 words, spanning 25 pages—that regulate analog cable receivers, cordless phones, and other obsolete equipment.

But 2025 is just the beginning.  While we’ll still cut deadwood in 2026, stay tuned for bigger initiatives on the horizon.  They include simplifying licensing and permitting; modernizing our rules for a new era of competition; shredding paperwork burdens; and tearing down technological silos that have been frozen in amber for decades.  
  
To make it happen, we’ll continue to depend on the FCC’s world-class team.  And for their work on today’s item, my thanks to Michael Ha, Nicholas Oros, Sebastian Garcia, Patrick Forster, Brian Butler, David Duarte, Siobahn Philemon, Bahman Badipour, Alice Jou, Ira Keltz, Dana Shafer, Jamison Prime, and Kathleen Burke from the Office of Engineering and Technology; and Douglas Klein, Robert Primosch, Scott Bouboulis, and David Konczal from the Office of General Counsel.

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