December FCC Agenda May See Dawn of Twilight Towers Next-Gen Wireless Deployment
The FCC's Dec. 14 agenda will include "a concrete solution" for twilight towers, with the aim of streamlining wireless infrastructure deployment, Commissioner Brendan Carr tweeted Tuesday. He said the item, if adopted, will allow next-generation wireless deployments on towers. Twilight…
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towers are towers built between 2001 and 2006 and that didn't necessarily go through review under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act because the agency hadn't yet provided guidance on compliance. In a statement, Carr said the item would pave the way to excluding collocations on twilight towers from routine historic preservation review, treating them the same as older towers already similarly excluded.