FCC Chairman Pai Sketches Out Timeline for Fighting Fake Comments

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai provided details to Congress on the commission’s effort to overhaul its much-maligned online commenting system. “The Commission is moving forward with the procurement steps for this project,” Chairman Pai wrote in an Aug. 31 letter responding to lawmaker questions. He said he expects the “Discovery/Requirements phase” to kick off in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019, adding the estimated development time for the rest of the project is “six to nine months.”