The FCC and its Intergovernmental Advisory Committee may not be...
The FCC and its Intergovernmental Advisory Committee may not be communicating enough, committee member Ken Fellman told the SouthEast Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors at their meeting in Charlotte, N.C., Thursday, during a panel on wireless siting issues. Fellman…
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is a past president of NATOA, works as an attorney in Colorado and is the one town attorney representative on the FCC Intergovernmental Advisory Committee. He pointed to the FCC’s January advisory on such wireless issues (http://fcc.us/13g5Q4P) and said the committee “frankly was shocked” to see it, having heard no advance notice it was coming. “The FCC did not tell their own advisory committee,” Fellman said, referring to an opportunity two weeks before the advisory was issued to do so. The committee is meeting again in April, and he remains “somewhat hopeful we will have a more frank discussion” but is also “concerned” given there’s no guarantee the FCC will keep the committee informed, he told SEATOA. “We ought to be concerned that there’s another wave coming,” he said, referring to some talk of a potential FCC rulemaking on these issues.