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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: 2) by meustrus on Tuesday August 18 2020, @01:35AM (5 children)
Actually, aside from the bizarre slurs, he's got a point. 5G is based on radio waves of arbitrary direction and intensity. Auditing the network's behavior would require data analysis on the order of SETI, so for all practical purposes any malicious behavior would be untraceable. And there's a lot of malice you can do with high intensity directional radio waves, i.e. electromagnetic radiation.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 18 2020, @01:47AM (4 children)
Isn't he implying that 5G is being set up to be used as a weapon?
If he is, he doesn't understand the inverse square law. Also, with what end in mind? Is this part of Bill gates' depopulation project I keep reading about on Facebook?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday August 19 2020, @01:37PM (3 children)
I understand zombies have eyes partially obstructed by the earth they digged themselves out of, but, in my original comment I wrote: "Another reason ... POTENTIALLY..."
So I cannot LOGICALLY be implying what I myself state as a potential threats who are reason for some behaviour.
Having said this, because the potential dangers I am in favor of regulating 5g as weapons. Only fully audited equipment with predetermined directionality and power. Preferably for mesh networks in the hand of the citizens, not corps or the state.
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday August 19 2020, @09:06PM (2 children)
Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were being serious.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday August 20 2020, @11:25AM (1 child)
first they ignore you
then they laugh at you...
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(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday August 20 2020, @08:45PM
Oh yes, we laugh at you. It is going to be hard for you to get to the winning bit, due to physics.