The Competitive Carriers Association asked the Supreme Court...
The Competitive Carriers Association asked the Supreme Court to hear T-Mobile’s appeal of a zoning decision last year by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. CCA filed an amicus brief in T-Mobile South, LLC v. City of…
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Roswell, Georgia. The 11th Circuit instructed a lower court to hear a zoning case brought by Roswell, Ga., after the court granted T-Mobile summary judgment on the grounds that the city’s denial of a cell tower permit sought by the carrier violated the Telecommunications Act (CD Oct 2 p 12). T-Mobile sought cert in February. “At its core, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 encourages competition and the deployment of advanced services to all Americans on a timely basis. But this promise has gone unfulfilled to many rural Americans,” CCA said (http://bit.ly/PYpttn). “While over 90 percent of non-rural Americans are covered by four or more mobile broadband service providers, less than 40 percent of rural Americans have access to the same number of options,” the group said. “In states where the appellate court has adopted the ‘minority’ rule (such as in the state subject to this appeal), wireless service providers and reviewing courts are forced to trudge through whatever administrative record may or may not be available in search of an answer for why a siting application was denied. This adds needless time and expense to the process, preventing carriers from building out in a timely manner."