CTIA Pushes FCC to Move on Light Poles

CTIA is urging the FCC to make a determination that its pole attachment regulatory authority extends to utility-owned light poles. In a filing posted Wednesday (docket 17-84) to recap a meeting with Wireline Bureau staffers, CTIA said that interpretation of Section 224 of the Communications Act, which covers pole attachments, would be consistent with the FCC's goals of accelerating broadband deployment and reducing barriers to it. "The best reading of Section 224's plain language" points to the law providing a nondiscriminatory access right to light poles, the group said.