Broadband Industry Wants FCC to Mandate 60-day Shot Clock for Local Permits
Local governments oppose the idea.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23, 2025 – Major broadband industry groups are continuing their push for the Federal Communications Commission to preempt state and local permitting rules for wireline infrastructure deployments.
“Decades of fragmented policymaking across disparate federal agencies, states, and localities have enabled overburdensome and unnecessary procedural requirements that hinder important infrastructure deployment projects,” eight trade groups wrote in a joint filing Wednesday.
The letter was signed by USTelecom, NCTA, CTIA, and INCOMPAS, among others. They asked the agency to institute a 60-day shot clock for state and local permitting agencies to respond to standard permit and rights-of-way requests, after which the applications would be deemed granted.
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