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The Federal Communications Commission has defeated dozens of cities in court, with judges ruling that the FCC can preempt local fees and regulations imposed on wireless carriers deploying 5G networks. The ruling is good news for AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
The FCC voted to preempt cities and towns in September 2018, saying the move would prevent local governments from charging wireless carriers about $2 billion worth of fees over five years related to deployment of wireless equipment such as small cells. That's less than 1 percent of the estimated $275 billion that the FCC said carriers would have to spend to deploy 5G small cells throughout the United States.
Cities promptly sued the FCC, but a ruling issued [Wednesday] by the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit went mostly in the FCC's favor. It wasn't a complete victory for the FCC, though, as judges overturned a portion of the FCC ruling that limited the kinds of aesthetic requirements cities and towns can impose on carrier deployments.
"The court rightly affirmed the FCC's efforts to ensure that infrastructure deployment critical to 5G... is not impeded by exorbitant fees imposed by state and local governments, undue delays in local permitting, and unreasonable barriers to pole access," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said, calling the court decision "a massive victory for US leadership in 5G, our nation's economy, and American consumers."
On the losing side were localities including Portland, Oregon; San Francisco; New York City; Los Angeles; Boston; Chicago; Washington, DC; Las Vegas; Philadelphia; Austin, Texas; and others.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Bot on Monday August 17 2020, @08:30PM (1 child)
Surely the fact that in Italy the national government overrode the mayors' directives that limited and interfered with 5G deployment is a coincidence.
What about the fact that during lockdown 5G deployments went on (while e.g. in my city they stopped working on the pavement of the most important historical street, which was already closed for weeks and meant lost business for many shops).
nooo no mondialism here. no new world order here (which may or may not comprise the NWO alternative embodied by an old school alliance USA Russia China).
What about the awful dictator Lukashenko? 21 july he says OMS offered him millions to submit to the COVID narrative, not even one month later he has to face the n-th color revolution? mere coincidence. Let's see if something happens to the prez of Madagascar too?
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Monday August 17 2020, @10:46PM
Oh, you're 5G conspiracy theorist? I'm shocked.
Well, not that shocked.