Reducing Barriers to Network Improvements and Service Changes, Accelerating Network Modernization; Correction
Key claim: The FCC Wireline Competition Bureau has withdrawn inadvertent regulatory instructions and established the effective date for updated rules governing telecommunications carrier network change disclosures and service discontinuances.
Abstract
(Rule · Federal Communications Commission) In this document, the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) withdraws all amendatory instructions inadvertently included in the notification published on October 1, 2026, announcing the effective dates of amendments to the Federal Communications Commission’s network change disclosure and discontinuance rules adopted in a Report and Order (FCC 26-19) that published on April 20, 2026. In this document, the Bureau also announces the effective date for amendments published on April 20, 2026.
Why this matters
This correction clarifies the regulatory text and implementation timing for carriers subject to network change disclosure and service discontinuance requirements. Those requirements govern procedures affecting customers when carriers modernize networks or discontinue services; the finding is an administrative correction to previously adopted rules, not a separate substantive policy change.