The FCC is proposing to roll back parts of the broadband “price label” rules adopted during the Biden administration that required internet service providers to itemize and disclose all discretionary “passthrough” fees charged to consumers. Under the draft order, ISPs would no longer have to list each location-dependent passthrough fee individually. Instead, providers could display an aggregated maximum or a single “up to” amount covering the total of fees applicable in any location where a plan is offered.
The FCC also proposes changes intended to reduce how prominently price labels appear and how they are formatted. Providers would be allowed to link to price labels rather than display the full labels on ordering pages and in account portals. The draft would also remove requirements to make label data available in machine-readable spreadsheets.
Separately, the FCC would relax a requirement that label information be read out verbatim over the phone, allowing phone sales representatives to present a conversational summary of key label fields. The draft order is set to be voted on at an FCC meeting later this month, would take effect about 30 days after publication in the Federal Register, and follows a notice-and-comment process that began in October 2025.
