The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent executive agency tasked with regulating the telecommunications sector, including radio, television, wire communications, satellite, cable, and the internet. The power of the FCC is laid out in Title 47 of the United States Code.
Like other federal agencies, the FCC engages in the process of rulemaking. FCC rules are collected in Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulation. Due to the Administrative Procedure Act, the FCC follows a notice and comment rulemaking process.
[Last updated in January of 2023 by the Wex Definitions Team]