Sprint CEO Meets With FCC Commissioners on Special Access
Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure was at the FCC last week to talk with the four commissioners other than Chairman Tom Wheeler about special access reform, said a series of filings posted Friday in docket 15-191. Claure “noted that access to…
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reasonably priced special access circuits, including ethernet backhaul, will be critical to expanding the coverage of mobile broadband services and providing the data speeds consumers demand,” said a filing. Claure also “discussed the importance of streamlining the siting process to allow more rapid deployment of small cells and network densification,” it said. “He noted the delays frequently encountered in certain jurisdictions and encouraged the FCC to consider actions that would speed the siting process nationwide.”