Senate Commerce Advances Network Equipment Transparency Act

Senate Commerce Advances Network Equipment Transparency Act

The Senate Commerce Committee advanced the Network Equipment Transparency Act (S-503) on a unanimous voice vote Wednesday. S-503 would direct the FCC to report every two years on the effect of gear availability on the deployment of broadband and other...

Senate Commerce Committee Passes NET Act

WASHINGTON, May 22, 2025 – The Senate Commerce Committee led by Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, yesterday passed the Network Equipment Transparency Act, a bill designed to track the reliability of the broadband supply chain. The bipartisan bill, passed by voice vote, would require the Federal Communications Commission in its biennial Communications Marketplace Report to “assess, to the extent that data is available to the [FCC], how the availability…