Costs of Tribal Reviews Getting Higher, Sprint Tells FCC
Sprint laid out for the FCC data on what it sees as the high cost of tribal historic reviews of new wireless facilities as the wide rollout of small cells begins. The analysis excludes collocations. Sprint’s average cost per tribal…
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site review was $8,251 over the past two years, said a filing in docket 17-79. The carrier’s total cost for tribal review for all small cells “exceeded $23 million” over the two-year period “and continues to increase every day,” it said. “The actual costs vary widely across the country depending upon location,” the company said. “Hawaii and the West Coast are the cheapest, in the range of $500 to $2,000, while the Midwest is the most expensive. Review in Indianapolis exceeds $15,000 per site. The disparity in costs is more due to the number of tribes requesting review rather than the fee per tribe for each review.”