WIA Making Push for Infrastructure Changes
The Wireless Infrastructure Association is pushing for FCC action on its and CTIA's petitions for wireless siting rule clarity (see 1909130062). Last month, the Wireless and Wireline bureaus sought comment. WIA executives met with all five commissioners, said a filing…
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posted Thursday in docket 19-250. “The petitions call for harmonizing the Commission's rules to allow for limited expansions of the compound when replacing or collocating new equipment on the existing tower, which will improve public safety operations,” said WIA. It noted the importance to FirstNet, which relies on collocation on existing sites. “Expanding the compound up to thirty feet would permit the installation of critical equipment like backup generators,” WIA said: “Many FirstNet deployments are held up by municipalities or the inability to expand the compound.” Attendees were CEOs Jonathan Adelstein of WIA, TowerCo's Todd Boyer, Crown Castle's Jay Brown, Jeffrey Stoops from SBA Communications and Diamond Communications' Ed Farscht.