FCC July 22 vote would kill machine-readable broadband price data, crippling third-party comparison tools

The FCC votes July 22 on draft rules eliminating the requirement for ISPs to publish machine-readable broadband price spreadsheets. The move would block aggregators and comparison sites from accessing structured pricing data via API, forcing a return to manual scraping or no coverage at all. The Commission would simultaneously permit hyperlinked instead of embedded labels, narrowing the data pipeline to independent rate-tracking tools.