Arlington, VA-As part of an Open Meeting on September 30th, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will consider modernizing its outmoded National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) rules. Those procedures add needless, costly delays to pro-consumer broadband deployment.
American Consumer Institute Director of Technology Policy, Logan Kolas, states:
“For decades, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has harmed consumers by delaying broadband projects through a myriad of reviews. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is right to modernize its historically anti-consumer NEPA barriers to broadband deployment, which the American Consumer Institute (ACI) has found frequently stall network upgrades. American consumers benefit when broadband providers are free to build their networks to solve market problems and meet consumer needs.”
The FCC should update and simplify its rules. Faster decisions mean capital can be deployed toward meeting consumers’ needs, rather than checking procedural boxes in paperwork. That decision would be welcome and long overdue.
For media inquiries, please email [email protected]