San Francisco Was 'Incoherent' in Open Access Rule, Pai Tells Pelosi
San Francisco, defending before the FCC its Police Code Article 52 that mandated building owners let ISP share all wiring, followed an "incoherent strategy" of vagueness about what the ordinance says, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai wrote House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,…
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D-Calif., on Jan. 3 and released Friday. He said the city finally asserted its ordinance doesn't require sharing of in-use wiring, but the ordinance language seemed to say otherwise. If the municipality's correct, he said, "there is no reason ... to object to our narrow ruling." Commissioners voted 3-2 in July to pre-empt part of the open access rule (see 1907100020). Mayor London Breed (D) didn't comment Friday. Pelosi's letter, dated July 10, said the proposed pre-emption "is deeply misguided [and would put] a chilling effect on much-needed competition in the telecommunications sector."