October 2, 2025

This Week in Amateur Radio

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FCC Adopts New Rule to Protect Comms Sector from “Foreign Adversaries”

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has announced that the commission has moved forward with two proposals to protect America’s national security and, in his words, “address the serious threats that foreign adversaries and other bad actors pose to our communications networks.”

At the open meeting on Thursday, May 22, commissioners unanimously approved a rule focused on blocking “untrustworthy actors” from interfering with the U.S. communications sector. In a separate proposal, the commission now looks to identify possibly-malicious foreign stakeholders.

In this story, we’ll take a look at the new rule and the FCC’s next course of action.

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