Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment

Document 2025-16332 is a Final Rule published by the Federal Communications Commission in the Federal Register on August 26, 2025, with an effective date of September 25, 2025. In this document, a Fifth Report and Order adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) establishes rules ensuring greater collaboration and cooperation between utilities and attachers, establishing a timeline for large pole attachment requests, revising and improving the pole attachment timeline, and establishing a deadline for the contractor approval process. In addition, the Commission denies in part and grants in part a Petition for Clarification and/or Reconsideration from the Edison Electric Institute of portions of the Commission's December 2023 Fourth Report and Order, Declaratory Ruling, and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. Finally, the Commission denies a Petition for Reconsideration from the Coalition of Concerned Utilities of a portion of the Fourth Report and Order. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/26/2025-16332/accelerating-wireline-broadband-deployment-by-removing-barriers-to-infrastructure-investment.

No. Document 2025-16332 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.