Macro Towers Remain Critical to Wireless Industry, American Tower Says
Macro towers, not just small cells, remain critical to wireless deployment, American Tower executives said in a meeting with an aide to Commissioner Mike O’Rielly. The American Tower officials said the FCC should add language on the importance of macro…
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towers to the wireless infrastructure item slated for a commissioner vote Sept. 26 (see 1809110030). “Some local governments have a mistaken belief that existing macro towers may no longer be necessary in light of the coming deployment of small cells,” the two company officials said Thursday in docket 17-79. “This viewpoint might inadvertently be bolstered by the Draft Order’s emphasis on the anticipated extent of small cell deployments without also indicating the important role that macro towers play in increasingly heterogeneous network configurations.”