T-Mobile welcomes Supreme Court review of T-Mobile South...
T-Mobile welcomes Supreme Court review of T-Mobile South v. City of Roswell, Georgia, a case that takes on tower siting rules, said Kathleen Ham, vice president-federal affairs, Thursday in a blog post. The court last month agreed to hear the…
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case, from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (http://1.usa.gov/1mwRFzZ). While the FCC respects “the role of municipalities in the siting process and its actions have been well within the bounds set by Congress, a number of cities and towns across the country continue to find ways to delay or halt altogether the deployment of wireless infrastructure,” Ham wrote (http://t-mo.co/1qeubT8). “Some impose arbitrary restrictions on the number of carriers that can put antennas on a single tower, while others require multiple public hearings for the upgrade and replacement of existing antennas or charge thousands of dollars for a simple permit to switch out copper wires for fiber optic facilities.”