Measures the FCC is taking under its Broadband Acceleration Initiative,...
Measures the FCC is taking under its Broadband Acceleration Initiative, unveiled Jan. 25 (CD Jan 28 p12), offer only “small reforms” and a small step forward, said Trey Hanbury of Hogan Lovells in a post on the law firm’s regulatory…
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blog (http://xrl.us/bod6uc). “Despite the hype, the two latest actions offer incremental improvements over the status quo, but no major change,” Hanbury wrote. “Of the two measures, the more important is the FCC’s release of some useful, but non-binding, interpretative guidance concerning the wireless infrastructure provisions of the recently enacted Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act. In a separate action, the FCC proposed to pursue a rulemaking to formalize and simplify the process of stationing temporary cell phone towers outside pre-planned, but non-emergency events, such as the Super Bowl. While perhaps helpful, these announcements do not alter the basic challenges that carriers and infrastructure providers face.” But FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is also promising to make other changes in the future, he said. “The true test for the Chairman, and the Commission, is whether the agency can finally start to move on some of the more potentially far-reaching measures, such as actions to speed [distributed antenna system] deployment and provide states and localities with model rules,” Hanbury wrote. “According to the Commission, action on the potentially more far-reaching measures should occur ‘in the coming months.’ The industry is waiting."