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posted by Fnord666 on Monday November 05 2018, @12:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the just-in-time-for-6G dept.

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Verizon won't speed up 5G buildout despite FCC preempting local fees

Verizon Wireless says it will not move faster on building its 5G cellular network despite a Federal Communications Commission decision that erased $2 billion dollars' worth of fees for the purpose of spurring faster 5G deployment.

The FCC's controversial decision last month angered both large and small municipalities because it limits the amount they can charge carriers for deployment of wireless equipment such as small cells on public rights-of-way. The FCC decision also limits the kinds of aesthetic requirements cities and towns can impose on carrier deployments and forces cities and towns to act on carrier applications within 60 or 90 days.Ajit Pai slams cities and towns as FCC erases $2 billion in local fees

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai justified the decision by saying it would speed up 5G deployment, and he slammed local governments for "extracting as much money as possible in fees from the private sector and forcing companies to navigate a maze of regulatory hurdles in order to deploy wireless infrastructure."

But in an earnings call last week, Verizon CFO Matt Ellis told investors that the FCC decision won't have any effect on the speed of its 5G deployment. Verizon also said that it is reducing overall capital expenditures—despite a variety of FCC decisions, including the net neutrality repeal, that the FCC claimed would increase broadband network investment. (Verizon posted a transcript of the earnings call here.)

An analyst asked Ellis if the FCC order would "change the sort of internal targets you have for the rollout of the small cell and 5G infrastructure and possibly allow you to go a little faster as you look out to 2019 and 2020."

Ellis responded that the FCC decision "doesn't necessarily increase the velocity that we see." Verizon is "going as fast as we can" already, he said.

Also at ExtremeTech


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  • (Score: 2) by Virindi on Monday November 05 2018, @09:50PM

    by Virindi (3484) on Monday November 05 2018, @09:50PM (#758207)

    You damn people didn't demand paper ballots! Shame on you!

    In my state, they went to amazing whizbang touchscreen voting machines a couple years after the 2000 election debacle. But after it became known how terrible those machines were, they once again changed the system. Now (including the 2016 election) all voting is done using "fill in the bubble" paper sheets and a scanner. The touchscreen machines have been decertified.

    It is actually more auditable than it was before. Back in the 80s and 90s, they used mechanical tabulation machines. These also had no paper record; you set mechanical switches and then pulled a lever to increment a mechanical tally for your candidates.

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