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CCA Seeks FCC Action on Review Fees for Wireless Deployments

Competitive Carriers Association representatives met last week with aides to FCC Commissioners Mignon Clyburn and Brendan Carr on wireless siting. CCA said the FCC should decide small cells and distributed antenna system deployments are outside the scope of a “federal…

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undertaking” under the National Historic Preservation Act. “CCA’s members continue to have a keen interest in reducing escalating fees and administrative delays presented by the … review process,” CCA said in docket 17-79. “Tribal fees and administrative burdens attached to the historic review process have escalated sharply in recent years, and these costs and permitting delays will continue to rise as CCA members deploy to meet consumers’ increasing data demands.” Members have faced tribal review fees from $250 to $1,650 a tribe per location, CCA said.