President-elect Donald Trump has picked Brendan Carr, a critic of the Biden administration's telecom policies and Big Tech, as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), he said in a statement on Sunday.
Carr, 45, is currently the top Republican on the FCC, the independent agency that regulates telecommunications.
He has been a harsh critic of the FCC's decision not to finalize nearly $900 million in broadband subsidies for Elon Musk's SpaceX satellite internet unit Starlink, as well as the Commerce Department's $42 billion broadband infrastructure program and President Joe Biden’s spectrum policy.
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