What to expect now that Brendan Carr is FCC chief

President Donald Trump’s second inauguration came and went, and that means Brendan Carr has officially taken the reins at the Federal Communications Commission. Much of Carr’s telecommunications policy agenda has already been laid out, featuring deregulation galore. Whether tighter regulations on the state front could damper that game plan is tough to say. Chairman Carr issued a statement saying the FCC has “important work ahead” on issues ranging from “tech and media regulation to unleashing new job opportunities for jobs and growth through agency actions on spectrum, infrastructure and the space economy.” And he’s been fairly transparent about pushing forth policies that “[eliminate] regulatory drags on consumer broadband,” said Joe Kane, director of broadband and spectrum policy at the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation.