CCA Offers Specific Recommendations for Broadband Deployment
Top officials from Competitive Carriers Association member companies urged the FCC to act on changes to wireless infrastructure siting rules. The letter, in docket 17-83, was timed to the first meeting of the FCC’s new Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (see…
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1704210050). The CCA executives had five specific requests. The BDAC should at minimum “reduce unnecessary delays throughout state and local siting requirements” and “support new buildout opportunities by suggesting that [the] Commission limit inconsistent and often exorbitant right-of-way ('ROW') fees to actual costs of review and ROW maintenance,” the letter said. The FCC should also “seek to reduce growing costs attached to historic and environmental review requirements and establish reasonable review timelines; … streamline siting on federal lands, including reasonable fee and timing clarifications; and … perhaps cumulatively, create and recommend adoption of a model code which will provide certainty as we work with various state and local governments to upgrade and deploy broadband infrastructure,” the letter said.