The FCC released a tentative agenda and draft items for the upcoming May Open Commission Meeting, which will be held at the FCC and streamed online on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, from 10:30am – 12:30pm EDT. The FCC plans to consider the following four items:
- A Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (draft) to update the STIR/SHAKEN framework to make it easier to remove voice service providers from U.S. networks that enable robocalls through proposed enhanced “know-your-upstream-provider” (“KYUP”) requirements, and heightened standards for how voice service providers apply STIR/SHAKEN attestations.
- A Report and Order and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (draft) to streamline audits and verifications, improve challenge processes, and reduce regulatory burdens associated with the FCC’s Broadband Data Collection initiative to help improve the National Broadband Map.
- A Third Report and Order (draft) that would modernize the FCC’s Disaster Information Reporting System (DIRS) by streamlining reporting, making the DIRS portal easier to use, limit reporting requirements for non-facilities-based providers, enhance public safety network operator’s reporting requirements, and more.
- A Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (draft) to update the FCC’s High-Cost Program which is funded by the Universal Service Fund (USF) in which the FCC seeks comment on the future of legacy and ACAM support mechanisms, the kinds of support necessary for areas which are already served by providers, deployment obligations for carriers that receive legacy support, and how alternative technologies such as satellite broadband should be considered within legacy support mechanisms.
