08-09-2023 13:22 via telecoms.com

US Senate confirms Anna Gomez as fifth FCC commissioner

Anna Gomez has been appointed as the fifth commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, a role that has been vacant for the entire Biden administration.
President Biden nominated Gomez in May this year, and she has now been appointed for a term of five years, but that seems to be backdated from July 1, 2021 when the last one left.
Crucially this gives the FCC a 3 to 2 Democrat majority, breaking a deadlock and presumably making it easier for it to make moves in relation to national tel
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