People are looking at five FCC commissioners making decisions and see the FCC as some mini legislation body. There is so much more to the FCC than that. The FCC establishes policies and enforces rules regarding radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. Some of the rules that the FCC enforces come from laws passed by the different branches of government.
In addition to establishing and enforcing rules the FCC has many administrative functions in processing applications for licenses and allocation frequencies for use in various services such as commercial radio frequencies, mobile communication frequencies, cell phone frequencies, and amateur radio.
An analogy to give this answer some perspective would by the DMV, department of motor vehicles. Every state has a DMV the hands out vehicle licenses, operator licenses, and administers a ton of paper work. If you did away with with the DMV, and said screw all the paperwork, what would happen? In a short period of time our highways would be crazier than they are now, and the highway system would be in total chaos.
Our world has become so dependent on various telecommunications services that without the many services currently managed by the FCC, our communications highway system would be in total chaos.
Most people don't really see the depth of the services managed by the FCC: https://www.fcc.gov/offices-bureaus
NOTE: The FCC is agency of the United States government, formed by the Communications Act of 1934. Telecommunications services provided by the FCC are done by various agencies in each country. There is also the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) which assists in global communications management. https://www.itu.int/en/about/Pages/default.aspx
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