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WASHINGTON, D.C. —Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr has ended the agency’s consideration of a 2024 proposal that sought to regulate so-called “bulk billing” broadband arrangements for entire buildings that might limit consumer choice.

The commission’s new chair announced Monday that the potential rule is dead, in a move applauded by apartment associations.

Brendan Carr will move the complaints against ABC, NBC and CBS – which accused them of being partial to Kamala Harris – back to active or pending status.

Brendan Carr closed out his first week as FCC chairman by coming to decisions on four more leadership positions within the commission.

Brendan Carr is now formally the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, giving him the power to set the agency’s agenda and usher through a host of regulations with major implications for the tech and media industries as soon as he has a Republican majority.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has dropped the previous administration's proposal to ban bulk billing deals that require tenants to pay for a specific provider's Internet service.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has revived three complaints against broadcast stations accused of bias against President Donald Trump.

Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr said Monday the agency will drop a proposed Biden administration plan to ban broadband internet "bulk billing" for residents of apartments, condominiums and public housing.

At a time when very few broadcast stations are owned by minorities, Carr said diversity, equity and inclusion efforts constituted “invidious forms of discrimination”

Brendan Carr says the the proposal would have raised internet prices for apartments tenants. But the old FCC chair argued the opposite and said bulk billing arrangements risked unwanted costs.

The Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr announced that the agency will abandon the proposed plan from the Biden administration to ban bulk billing for broadband internet in residential areas.