Representatives of PCIA and its DAS Forum elaborated on the...
Representatives of PCIA and its DAS Forum elaborated on the challenges of meeting National Historic Preservation Act and National Environmental Policy Act requirements in distributed antenna systems (DAS) and small cell rollout, during a meeting with FCC Wireless Bureau officials.…
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Steps that would help include clarification of the 2004 Nationwide Programmatic Agreement for attachments within the utility rights-of-way a declaration that “DAS and small cell deployments are not federal undertakings and are thus excluded from Section 106 requirements under the Nationwide Programmatic Agreement,” the filing said. Representatives of AT&T and tower owner Crown Castle discussed the scope of DAS deployment, said an ex parte filing on the meeting (http://bit.ly/XKJVti): “AT&T has had a 30,000 percent increase in mobile data traffic over the last six years and ... the carrier plans to deploy over 10,000 new macro cell sites, over 1,000 DAS and over 40,000 small cells in order to provide high quality service to its customers."