Kristian Stout on Copper Retirement NPRM

Kristian Stout July 29, 2025

Kristian Stout, ICLE’s Director of Innovation Policy, was quoted in Communications Daily regarding the expected approval of the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) designed to help major providers more easily retire aging copper networks.

The proceeding has been “remarkably quiet,” noted Kristian Stout, Innovation Policy Director for the International Center for Law & Economics. “Barring any last-minute curveballs, I’d expect only cosmetic tweaks, tightening language around public-safety continuity and the streamlined 31-day window [for automatically granting applications], rather than substantive change.”

Read the whole piece here.