AT&T Seeks Modernized Rules for Reviews of Small Cells
AT&T said the FCC should update its National Environmental Policy Act and National Historic Preservation Act rules for reviews of small-cell installations to “pave the way” for 5G. The rules for NEPA and NHPA reviews are based on “large macrocell…
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towers” and modernizing those rules would “reduce the time it takes to deploy small cell facilities, reduce the cost of deploying small cell facilities, and facilitate an increase in small cell investment,” AT&T said in a filing in docket 17-79. “With each antenna comprising only about 3 cubic feet in volume, small cells indeed are unobtrusive and in harmony with the poles, street furniture, and other structures on which they are typically deployed.” AT&T complained about the high cost of tribal reviews: "Standard fees charged by Tribal Nations have increased by 1400 percent in the Northeast and by 2500 percent in the Southeast in just the last 7 years. Many projects that implicate no tribal interests, such as collocations on existing structures, nevertheless generate significant tribal fees."