Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment
Key claim: The FCC Wireline Competition Bureau announces that OMB has approved the information collection associated with revised pole attachment rules, allowing those rules to take effect.
Abstract
(Rule · Federal Communications Commission) 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 pole attachment rules in Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment, Fifth Report and Order, Fourth Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, and Orders on Reconsideration, FCC 25-38, 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.
Why this matters
Pole attachment disputes and make-ready delays are one of the most-cited practical barriers to extending wireline broadband, especially in areas targeted by federal deployment subsidies. OMB clearance of the information collection is the last procedural gate before the revised rules bind pole owners and attachers, so this notice marks the point at which the substantive changes actually begin to affect deployment timelines and costs.