{"id":975999,"date":"2025-11-22T11:35:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=975999"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:05:25","slug":"fcc-eases-cybersecurity-rules-for-us-telecom-companies-and-why-it-may-be-big-problem-for-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/22\/fcc-eases-cybersecurity-rules-for-us-telecom-companies-and-why-it-may-be-big-problem-for-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC eases cybersecurity rules for US telecom companies and why it may be \u2018Big\u2019 problem for Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reportedly voted to eliminate rules that mandated US phone and internet companies to meet minimum cybersecurity requirements. The repealed regulations required telecommunications carriers to \u201csecure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.\u201d According to a report by TechCrunch, the rules implemented by the Biden administration in January were withdrawn by the FCC after two commissioners appointed by US President Donald Trump, Chairman Brendan Carr and Olivia Trusty, voted to eliminate them. However, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez criticised the decision, calling the rules the \u201conly meaningful effort this agency has advanced\u201d since the discovery of a sweeping hacking campaign, the report added. Gomez also noted that cooperation with the telecommunications industry is valuable for cybersecurity, but it is not enough on its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reportedly voted to eliminate rules that mandated US phone and internet companies to meet minimum cybersecurity requirements. The repealed regulations required telecommunications carriers to \u201csecure their networks from unlawful access or interception of communications.\u201d According to a report by TechCrunch, the rules implemented by the Biden administration in January were withdrawn by the FCC after two commissioners appointed by US President Donald Trump, Chairman Brendan Carr and Olivia Trusty, voted to eliminate them. However, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez criticised the decision, calling the rules the \u201conly meaningful effort this agency has advanced\u201d since the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}