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A letter from the city of Philadelphia doesn’t address the...

A letter from the city of Philadelphia doesn’t address the “unreasonableness and illegality” of certain parts of its ordinance restricting satellite antenna placement, members of the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association said in an ex parte filing in docket 12-1…

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(http://xrl.us/bm3oi2). Instead, the letter addresses issues outside of antenna placement, SBCA said: Philadelphia’s description of the ordinance “directly contradicts both the ordinance’s text and Philadelphia’s own prior advocacy.” It also is wrong and irrelevant, SBCA said: SBCA’s choice to advise installers to consider certain practices voluntarily “has nothing whatsoever to do with whether a city can require installers to comply with such practices under the penalty of law."