The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the FCC’s Shot Clock ruling in the case City of Arlington, Texas, et al. v. Federal Communications Commission et al. The municipalities claimed that the FCC did not have the authority to make the shot clock ruling, which set a deadline of 90 days for cities to process co-location [...]
View Article shot clock, U.S. Supreme Court, wireless infrastructureAs network build outs begin to taper off and subscribers take up LTE devices, carrier operating expenditures will surpass capital expenditures by 2015 according to a report released by iGR Market Research last week. “Most of the largest U.S. operators are already well advanced in their LTE network rollouts,” Iain Gilliott, president and founder of [...]
View Article iGR Market Research, LTE, wireless infrastructureThe greatest thing about wireless technology is also the most maddening thing about it, at least from the carriers’ viewpoint. It marches continually forward. Never resting on its laurels. Before one generation of wireless is completely rolled out, the next one enters the technology pipeline, while carriers struggle to get their return on investment. True [...]
View Article Gray Beards Consulting, Jake MacLeod, Samsung, wireless infrastructureMichael Higgs, Jr., Member, Telecommunications Group, Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker —- Over the past couple of weeks the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau has issued four Notices of Apparent Liability (NAL) for violation of the Commission’s tower rules. Two of the NALs involve the failure of site owners to enclose AM transmission towers within effective [...]
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