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<div class="moz-forward-container">Governor Brown vetoed a bill last
year that would do exactly this, eliminate local jurisdiction over
rights of way and light poles for more cell phone small cells. <br>
This order would set mandatory inexpensive rates for light pole
leases for huge cell phone companies, and remove the local
jurisdiction from the decision making process. <br>
Yuck. <br>
<br>
RAN. <br>
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<td>Blair Levin: FCC Small Cell Draft Order Would Exacerbate
the Digital Divide</td>
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<td>Wed, 19 Sep 2018 12:39:29 +0000</td>
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<td>Coalition for Local Internet Choice
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Catharine@localnetchoice.org"><Catharine@localnetchoice.org></a></td>
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<td>Coalition for Local Internet Choice
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Catharine@localnetchoice.org"><Catharine@localnetchoice.org></a></td>
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<td>Robert <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rob@omsoft.com"><rob@omsoft.com></a></td>
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<p style="margin: 1em
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left;">Earlier this
week, CLIC advisor
Blair Levin sent
CLIC and NATOA
leadership a letter
detailing his
concerns with the
FCC’s draft small
cell order, an order
that preempts local
authority while
purporting to
advance broadband
deployment. Blair’s
letter describes why
the draft order will
have the opposite
impact and is likely
to exacerbate the
digital divide while
tying the hands of
local governments to
build collaboration
with the private
sector. Excerpts of
Blair’s analysis are
below, and the full
letter is <a
href="https://localnetchoice.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=09c6fc743c87e862042edd5d5&id=1cb3c3505e&e=d1bb241e3d"
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<strong><em>Blair
Levin:</em></strong></p>
<p style="margin: 1em
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Helvetica;font-size:
15px;line-height:
150%;text-align:
left;">This is in
response to your
request for my view
of the FCC’s pending
order, proposing to
cap the fees that
state and local
governments may
charge for small
cell attachments.
According to the
FCC’s draft order,
these<em><span
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price-caps will save
the industry $2B in
costs to operate in
metropolitan
areas—which will
translate into $2.5B
in new wireless
investment,
primarily in rural
areas. This letter
summarizes my
thoughts on aspects
of the draft order.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em
0;padding:
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Helvetica;font-size:
15px;line-height:
150%;text-align:
left;">[On Wall
Street and in
Washington, DC],
I’ve interacted with
numerous investors,
carriers, and
localities, and that
experience leads to
my concerns with the
FCC’s argument:</p>
<p style="margin: 1em
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150%;text-align:
left;"><strong>First,
focusing on state
and local
government fees
and process is a
distraction from
the real obstacles
to accelerated and
ubiquitous
deployment of next
generation mobile
services, </strong>which
are that broadband
deployment economics
are very challenging
and have to be
addressed at all
levels of government
and through creative
collaboration with
the private sector.
Fees for access to
public property
represent only one
of many, many costs
of doing business a
carrier will
encounter. A focus
on reducing or
eliminating one
(relatively
marginal) cost of
doing business does
not solve the
challenging
economics of
broadband deployment
and serves only to
obscure the true
challenges….</p>
<p style="margin: 1em
0;padding:
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #606060;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
15px;line-height:
150%;text-align:
left;"><strong>Second,
local governments
have a strong
recent track
record of
endeavoring to
enable and
facilitate
broadband
deployment, </strong>as
the Google Fiber
experience
conclusively
demonstrated.
Vilifying them based
on fees for use of
public property is
not only a
distraction, but
also unfair. Indeed,
rather than
acknowledging that
carriers have a
proven ability to
negotiate
advantageous fees
with localities, the
FCC’s draft order
infantilizes
carriers by
preempting state and
local government,
presumably on the
theory that carriers
cannot protect
themselves in
negotiations with
states and
localities. This is
absurd….. Tying the
hands of localities
and states is
self-defeating – it
stops them from
using creative
partnering
strategies (as they
have successfully
done in cities like
San Jose, CA and
Lincoln, NE) to find
ways to improve
broadband outcomes….
Thus, despite the
FCC’s rhetoric, the
proposal will likely
exacerbate, rather
than alleviate, the
digital divide.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em
0;padding:
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
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Helvetica;font-size:
15px;line-height:
150%;text-align:
left;"><strong>Third,
the FCC’s draft
order is based on
a fallacy that no
credible investor
would adopt and no
credible economist
endorse: </strong>that
reducing or
eliminating costs
for small cell
mounting on public
property in
lucrative areas of
the country (thus
reducing carriers’
operating costs),
will lead to
increased capital
expenditures in less
lucrative areas–
thus supposedly
making investment
more attractive in
rural areas.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em
0;padding:
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #606060;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
15px;line-height:
150%;text-align:
left;">That simply
is not how
investment decisions
are made…. My
experience on Wall
Street is that
neither analysts nor
investors regard
this FCC action as
likely to lead to
increased deployment
in non-economically
attractive areas,
which most on Wall
Street would
consider an
irrational act… In
short, while the FCC
may ignore reality,
the carriers and
Wall Street
understand that
increasing
profitability in
Market A will not
make Market B more
attractive for
investment. Market B
will still be an
area that is
unprofitable or
otherwise
unattractive for
investment, and the
new requirement that
Market A subsidize
carriers by reducing
fees will not
benefit Market B
under these
circumstances….</p>
<p style="margin: 1em
0;padding:
0;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #606060;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
15px;line-height:
150%;text-align:
left;"><strong>Finally,
let me note
something I
discuss at length
in the attached
speeches: the
draft order
presents a
framework in which
industry gets all
the benefits
(reduced fees to
access state and
local property)
with no
obligations to
reinvest the
resulting profits
in rural broadband</strong>—even
though the purported
rationale for the
reduced fees is that
they will lead to
new investment. At
the same time,
states and
localities will be
forced by federal
mandate to bear all
the costs and
receive no
guaranteed benefits.</p>
<p style="margin: 1em
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100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #606060;font-family:
Helvetica;font-size:
15px;line-height:
150%;text-align:
left;">In short, my
response to your
request is that I am
deeply troubled by
the FCC’s draft
order, the options
it ignored, and the
fallacious logic on
which it rests. And
I’m particularly
concerned about the
prospect of
unelected federal
officials in
Washington DC
mandating how, and
at what price, state
and local elected
officials can manage
their own
property—all for the
benefit of a select
group of companies
that are under no
obligations to
reinvest these
mandated public
subsidies in new
deployment.</p>
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