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Southern Linc Updates New Starks Aide on Utility Communications Needs

Southern Linc representatives met with Flynn Rico-Johnson, new wireless aide to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, to update him on the most important issues to the Southern Co. subsidiary. “With the digitization of the electric grid that is now underway, utilities now…

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need broadband networks capable of handling large amounts of data,” a filing Tuesday in 21-346 and other dockets said. “We discussed the importance of access to spectrum for the deployment of private LTE and 5G broadband networks to meet utilities’ ever-increasing capacity, reliability and security needs,” the company said. Southern Linc stressed its support for a proposed rulemaking authorizing 5/5 MHz broadband deployments in the 900 MHz band (see 2402290064).