Wednesday, February 8, 2023

AT&T Seeks Federal Court Help on Pole Attachment Dispute

By Leslie Stimson, Inside Towers Washington Bureau Chief

UPDATE AT&T has gone to federal court over an FCC decision last November that said the carrier’s not entitled to as low an attachment rate from Duke Energy Progress poles than other telecommunications attachers. The Commissioners made the original decision in 2021. Both AT&T and Duke appealed for different reasons. Last November, the agency decided that AT&T paid too much to Duke to access the utility poles in North and South Carolina under a Joint User Agreement (JUA) between the two companies.  

The FCC ordered Duke to charge a lower rate in compliance with the Commission’s 2011 and 2018 pole attachment orders. The exact figure was not made public and redacted from the document, Inside Towers reported. Continue Reading

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