The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau released a Public Notice announcing May 7, 2026, as the effective date of new Pole Attachment rules. Adopted July 25, 2025, in the Fifth Report and Order on the Accelerating Wireline Broadband Deployment by Removing Barriers to Infrastructure Investment docket, the rules set faster timelines for large-scale pole attachment requests, encourage more collaboration between utilities and pole-attachers, and establish remedies to facilitate faster application processing.
