Smart Communities Dismiss Opposition to Recon Petition on Moratoriums Order
Carriers didn’t respond substantively to a reconsideration petition by Smart Communities and Special Districts Coalition, the coalition replied Monday in docket 17-84. Verizon’s 29 pages violated the FCC’s 25-page limit for oppositions for recon petitions, while NCTA and NTCA failed…
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to serve the group with their oppositions as required, the local group added. Broadband interests last week opposed the coalition’s request to revisit an FCC August decision that included pre-empting local moratoriums on broadband deployment (see 1811130048). CTIA and Verizon “merely reiterate the same conclusions already adopted by the Commission and often cite solely to the Ruling being challenged here as sole support for those assertions,” the coalition said.