Verizon said it would not consider identity-based goals during the hiring or promotion process.
“Verizon has also committed to ending DEI-related practices designated in the FCC records, reaffirming the merged entity’s commitment to equal opportunities and non-discrimination,” the agency said.
“This ensures that the combined business will enact policies and practices that are consistent with the law and the public interest.”
“Verizon recognizes that some DEI policies and practices may be related to discrimination,” Vandana Venkatesh, the company’s chief justice officer, said in a letter on May 15th. The changes were “in practical terms not just in their names, but in the way they were written.
We should no longer consider identity-based goals when considering hiring, promoting or bonuses for executives. Verizon said it has updated its supplier and sponsorship policy to remove gender and race-based standards.
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In February, Carr had suggested that Verizon’s DEI efforts could affect the institution’s decisions regarding Verizon-Frontier transactions.
With the transaction now approved, Verizon can upgrade and expand Frontier’s existing network, spanning 25 states. Verizon expects to deploy fiber connections to more than 1 million homes each year, the FCC statement said.
“By accepting this agreement, the FCC ensures that Americans benefit from a series of good, common sense victories. This deal unlocks billions of new infrastructure to rural American communities,” Kerr said.
“This investment accelerates the transition from old copper line networks to modern, faster networks, and provides the American tower and communications crew who do the often rough work needed to build high-speed networks.”
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President Donald Trump announced Carr on November 17th in his post as FCC Chairman.
“The FCC’s latest budget request stated that DEI promotion is the agency’s second-highest strategic goal,” Carr said in a post on X later that day. “From next year, the FCC will finish its promotions for DEI.”
The post included screenshots of FCC’s “Strategic Goal 2” at the time. According to this, “to move forward with exhibits is at the heart of the agency’s management and policy-making process, which benefits all Americans.”
“In the first section of the Communications Act, the Congress stated that it had created the FCC with the aim of regulating interstate and foreign commercial transactions in communication without discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin or gender,” he said.
“Promoting strange forms of discrimination is carried out against the Communications Act, depriving Americans of the right to just and equal treatment under the law.”
Carr said he has removed DEI from the FCC’s strategic plans and budget, has ended its agency DEI advisory group and equity action plans, and has removed DEI analyses from FCC Economic Reports and others.
