The FCC is questioning how state and local governments can impact the
speed and cost of broadband infrastructure deployment in order to
reform those processes. As FCC Chairman Ajit Pai explained to attendees
of a broadband seminar in Stockholm on Monday, one proposal would deem
an application is granted if not acted on within a certain time frame by
a state or local government.
The FCC is looking at its own rules too, to see what can be done to
minimize costs and delays. “The bottom line is this: Rules that were
designed for 100-foot towers might not make sense for small cells that
you can hold in your hands,” said Pai. “And we don’t want governments to
channel the grim reaper in Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 all-time classic The
Seventh Seal, decreeing ‘Nothing escapes me. No one escapes me.’” Continue Reading
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