This bill, called the Network Equipment Transparency Act (NET Act), tells the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to evaluate how the availability of telecommunications network equipment affected the deployment of advanced telecommunications capability during its reporting periods. It adds a specific assessment requirement to section 13(b) of the Communications Act of 1934 to the extent data is available. The bill also includes a rule saying providers are not required to give the FCC more information than they had to provide before this change, and it makes technical paragraph-numbering edits to the statute.
The FCC will include an assessment of whether network equipment availability affected the rollout of advanced telecommunications capability in its reports when data is available. This could give regulators, providers, and communities a clearer record about supply chain effects on deployment. The bill does not force providers to provide more information than they already had to provide under existing law.
No publicly available information on costs or budgetary effects is included in the bill text.
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