May 4, 2026Technology, Telecommunications, Robocalls & Robotexts, Broadband Equity Access & Deployment, Broadband, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission) Chairman Brendan Carr released a tentative agenda for the FCC’s May Open Meeting headlined with a new proceeding that could remake aspects of the $4.5 billion High Cost program. The other three items on the May agenda advance existing efforts to improve the Broadband Data Collection (BDC), the robocall regulatory regime and the disaster outage reporting system. The FCC’s May Open Meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 20, at 10:30 a.m. ET, and details on the four expected items to be considered at the Open Meeting are summarized below:
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