This webinar next week might be interesting:
https://www.fcc.gov/document/wcb-and-cgb-infrastructure-deployment-webinar
It refers back to this NPRM, dated April 2017:
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-seeks-comment-removing-regulatory-barriers-broadband
Which lists these possible measures:
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o Pole attachment reforms to make it easier for broadband providers to
attach the wires necessary for next-generation networks, including:
o Adopting a streamlined timeframe for gaining access to utility poles by
using elements of municipal "one-touch, make-ready" rules
o Reducing charges paid by attachers to utilities for work done to make a
pole ready for new attachments
o Ensuring that pole attachers are not charged multiple times for certain
capital costs
o Establishing a shot clock for Commission consideration of pole
attachment complaints
o Adopting a formula for computing the maximum pole attachment rate for
incumbent local exchange carriers
o Adopting rules that would allow for all local carriers (local exchange
carriers, or LECs) to demand reciprocal access on other LEC-owned poles.
o Expediting the process for LECs to retire copper networks and provide
notice of network changes by:
o Streamlining copper retirement and reducing associated regulatory
burdens to facilitate more rapid transition to IP networks
o Streamlining and/or eliminating provisions of network change
notification rules that may no longer be necessary
o Eliminating rules requiring carriers to spend money to maintain
outdated equipment
o Streamlining the approval process for discontinuance of legacy
services.
The Notice of Inquiry seeks comment on using the FCC's preemption authority to
prospectively prohibit the enforcement of state and local laws that pose
barriers to broadband deployment.
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Would have been interesting if the FCC also asked about "agreeing to a
guarantee of neutrality, on the broadband Internet aspect of the service."
I would add that in all newer neighborhoods in many areas, like where we live,
for the past few decades already, utilities are all buried. So even in cases
where access to poles outside the neighborhoods is possible, this won't
guarantee that competing wireline networks would be available to households in
the area. My bet is that the main event here is ROI. Buried utilities only
making this more of an issue.
In this area, some of the utility companies have embarked in programs of
ongoing burying of utilities on the older neighborhoods, to address the
problems of outages in bad weather that have given them such a bad reputation
in recent years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/pepco-dc-ask-regulators-to-approve-burying-more-power-lines/2014/06/17/597286e2-f658-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html?utm_term=.621d88ae650a
End of thread.
Bert
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