FCC Should Reconsider Wireless Deployment Decision, Petition State Municipal Leagues
The FCC should reconsider its wireless deployment declaratory ruling and order, said the Government Wireless and Technical Association, state municipal leagues from Mississippi, Alabama and others, New Orleans, and Middleburg, Virginia, in a petition for reconsideration posted Thursday in docket…
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17-79. They alleged the FCC “has manufactured a massive shift of corporate costs from carriers to municipal governments by exaggerating the number of abuses by a limited number of municipalities, while at the same time ignoring abuses by wireless providers.” The agency should “eliminate the maximum fees imposed in the Report and Order, eliminate the ill-conceived changes to the Shot Clock, and permit municipalities which have made significant efforts to reach agreements with telecommunications companies to deploy facilities to make decisions on truly local issues.” Some commissioners and industry officials have defended the rules.