NATOA Talks With Biden Team on Small-Cell Policies' Impact
NATOA met with President-elect Joe Biden’s FCC review team in late December to highlight the impact of small-cell policies and other commission actions, General Counsel Nancy Werner said Wednesday. “The FCC has drastically limited the local role in deployment of…
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communications services that are essential to ensuring that everyone has access to jobs, education, healthcare, information, entertainment and the digital world.” Small-cell policies “prevented municipalities from working with the private sector to direct resources to un- and under-served areas, despite successful partnerships in San Jose, California, and elsewhere prior to the FCC’s preemptive actions,” Werner said. “Though decades of local cable franchising has resulted in cable companies being the largest providers of broadband services in the country, the FCC has undercut those agreements and hampered local public, educational, and governmental (PEG) access channels.” Localities challenged the FCC’s 2019 cable local franchise authority order in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit (see 2009020052). They challenged 2018 wireless infrastructure orders on small cells and local moratoriums in the 9th Circuit (see 2009290047).