[WC Docket Nos. 25-208, 25-209; FCC 26-19; FR ID 370342] Reducing Barriers to Network Improvements and Service Changes, Accelerating Network Modernization

What it does

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 network change disclosure and service discontinuance rules in a Report and Order, 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.

The Federal Communications Commission's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

2 parts of Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

47 CFR 51, 47 CFR 63

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Federal Communications Commission has published 57 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 78 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

The amendments to Sec. Sec. 51.329, 51.333, 63.60, 63.62(a), (b), and (d), 63.63, 63.71, and 63.602, published at 91 FR 20913, April 20, 2026, are effective on October 15, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 47 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register