Crown Castle Suggests FCC Use Preemption Authority to Remove Barriers to Broadband Deployment

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Crown Castle filed a letter on June 1, 2018, attaching a railroad crossing memorandum in support of its request for the Federal Communications Commission to exercise its section 253 authority and preempt state and local laws that allow railroads to act as gatekeepers to the rights-of-way (ROW). Crown Castle said obstacles related to infrastructure placement in public ROW controlled by the railroads has been raised as a barrier to deployment in both the wireless and wireline broadband proceedings, and requested the Commission exercise its section 253 authority to preempt such state and local legal requirements to the extent railroads use them to prohibit telecommunications services, as further detailed in the memorandum.


Crown Castle Suggests FCC Use Preemption Authority to Remove Barriers to Broadband Deployment