The US Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on 22 July 2026 to scrap a Biden-era rule that requires internet service providers to itemise every "passthrough" fee on their broadband price labels. Instead of listing each charge separately, ISPs will be permitted to bundle them into a single "up to" figure, making it harder for consumers to see exactly what they will pay above advertised rates. The move matters because ISPs frequently advertise low prices and then inflate monthly bills with additional fees, and the label rule was intended to expose those costs.

The order, championed by Trump-appointed chairman Brendan Carr, also loosens related transparency requirements: providers may link to price labels rather than display them prominently, may stop publishing the data in machine-readable spreadsheets, and phone representatives may summarise rather than read out label details. Passthrough fees cover non-tax charges such as state and local right-of-way and pole-attachment fees that vary by location. Comcast and other ISPs had complained about the complexity of itemising them, while public interest groups including Public Knowledge and the National Consumer Law Center urged the FCC to abandon the changes, warning they would worsen hidden charges and widen the digital divide.