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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @01:15PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @01:15PM (#758482)

    The Democrats have been snatching defeat from the jaws of victory...

    Only on the surface, in front of the cameras. It's an act! Behind the scenes it's all lovey-dovey between the GOP and DNC. They 'share' the power to keep the power, and the voters play along thinking they'll get a piece of the action. You may like to think the DNC is the 'lesser evil'. but they are not. The GOP/DNC is a monolith, a single entity with a singular purpose.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 06 2018, @04:15PM (6 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday November 06 2018, @04:15PM (#758555) Journal

    One party has been inviting the religious nutbars in since the late 70s and early 80s, and arming *another* group of religious nutbars who think the first group is going to spend eternity on fire, and vice versa. It's not the Democrats.
    One party has been threatening to get rid of Medicare and Social Security for ages, and now appears poised to succeed. It's not the Democrats.
    One party has been consistently against gays' and trans* peoples' rights even as the country's broader opinion moves toward the light. It's not the Democrats.
    One party has been slaves to the false prophet of trickle-down economics for decades now, despite time after time seeing it doesn't fucking work. It's not the Democrats.

    "They're the same!!!111one" has got to be a GOP psy-ops campaign.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @05:13PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @05:13PM (#758584)

      They both work together to the same ends, otherwise we would see real opposition and much less 'compromise'. You still only describe two sides of one coin. You're taking their theatrics as gospel. They just aren't playing the game you think they are.

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday November 07 2018, @05:26AM (4 children)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday November 07 2018, @05:26AM (#758842) Journal

        I know what game they're playing, and it's the "Neo-" game (as in, neoliberal and neoconservative). They're both irredeemable greedheads, but the Democrats will destroy society by accident while the Republicans will do it on purpose, largely because a non-trivial percentage of them are trying to bring about a Biblical (or so they think...) apocalypse.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @04:10PM (3 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @04:10PM (#759013)

          Again you are wrong, and believing the act is real.. GOP and DNC share the same objectives. The phony 'opposition' is pure illusion, though its effectiveness is quite real. Their ONLY differences are in style.

          • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday November 07 2018, @04:34PM (2 children)

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday November 07 2018, @04:34PM (#759026) Journal

            Well, that "style" can mean life or death for us plebs here on the ground for another 5-20 years. Maybe just enough for me to GTFO to somewhere civilized. I'll take it.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @05:00PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 07 2018, @05:00PM (#759044)

              Well, things won't get any better until we actually work at it. We can start by not repeating the same mistakes over and over. But, if kicking the can further down the street is what floats yer boat, so be it.

              • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 09 2018, @05:29AM

                by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday November 09 2018, @05:29AM (#759729) Journal

                I'd agree with you, but things haven't gotten bad enough for enough people yet for the critical mass of We the People to wake the fuck up and demand change. Frankly, I'm tired of it all, and would rather go somewhere civilized, so am going to vote in the way that is most likely to give me enough time to get the unholy fuck out. If things get worse as fast as I think they're going to, of course, I won't have the time, and assuming elections still exist and I'm alive to vote in them, I will then be casting third party votes.

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