California's Governor Vetoes Telecom Industry's
"Small Cell" Antenna Bill (SB 649)
October 16, 2017 (updated Oct 17, 2017)
Shortly earlier midnight on Oct 15, Jerry Brown vetoed Senate Bill 649, legislation promoted yesteryear the CTIA-The Wireless Association together with the telecommunication industry.
SB 649 would undermine the mightiness of local governments to command the public rights of way inwards guild to facilitate the telecom industry's deployment of upwards to 50,000 novel jail cellular telephone antenna sites inwards the state. The neb would significantly growth exposure to microwave radiation, together with for the commencement fourth dimension divulge the population to millimeter radiation.
Over 180 scientists together with doctors signed a declaration demanding a moratorium on the growth of jail cellular telephone antennas for planned 5G expansion. Concerns over wellness effects from higher radiations exposure include potential neurological impacts, infertility, together with cancer.
Over 300 cities together with almost 4 dozen counties opposed the bill. Wireless security together with environmental wellness advocates from throughout California organized to oppose this neb together with educate legislators together with the governor virtually the risks to wellness together with security that this neb poses.
News stories regarding the Governor's veto:
San Francisco Chronicle
scientific evidence that includes reports of increasing rates of cancer together with neurological diseases that may live caused yesteryear exposure to EMF from wireless sources.
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Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct 16, 2017
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editorials/sd-brown-veto-messages-20171016-story.html
Editorial Board, Sacramento Bee, Sep 28, 2017
A Earth neb that would give huge telecom companies a fiscal intermission together with unprecedented rights to usage world holding at almost no terms is sailing through the Legislature this summer.
Why? Money, of course. Telecom companies mensurate profits inwards the tens of billions. California lawmakers sympathise this, together with so that’s whose side they’re on. The neb sailed through the Senate. Now it’s upwards to the Assembly to stand upwards up for communities — specially low-income neighborhoods — that volition live harmed yesteryear it.
SB 649 would prohibit cities from whatever discretionary review or world say on plans to position “small cell” wireless antennas on publicly owned lite poles together with other structures inwards whatever neighborhood. (Yes, fifty-fifty your neighborhood.) And it would sharply bound fees that cities accuse private manufacture for using holding or facilities that taxpayers receive got paid for.
Sponsored yesteryear Sen. Ben Hueso, D-Chula Vista, SB 649 is billed equally cutting through permitting cherry record together with improving jail cellular telephone phone service. But it volition slash existing revenue to cities such equally San Francisco, which stands to lose millions of dollars a year. And it volition eviscerate cities’ mightiness to select high-speed Internet service to low-income neighborhoods, equally San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has promised to exercise for East San Jose.
Other mayors are joining Liccardo together with the League of California Cities to create exercise this outrageous mightiness catch yesteryear the Earth together with telecoms. We hope it’s non likewise late.
Here are a few of SB 649’s problems:
By preventing cities from negotiating over antenna locations, the neb eliminates their mightiness to force companies to supply high-speed access inwards underprivileged areas. Without that leverage, companies volition focus only on areas where they brand the most money.
By limiting fees, the neb deprives cities of revenue they could usage to growth access to broadband inwards those wretched neighborhoods. Companies volition salve an estimated $30 1000000 statewide over 10 years — at the terms of world services.
By making world holding broadly available to for-profit companies, the neb volition bound cities’ together with counties’ mightiness to locate their ain communication equipment, such equally police pull together with burn downwards systems together with equipment from partners — potentially Facebook inwards San Jose — working on ways to assist equalize Internet access.
And hold off until neighbors notice out they receive got no say over the clumps of electronic equipment that demo upwards on lite poles nigh their houses. But Earth legislators don’t aid virtually that. People won’t telephone telephone them; they’ll scream to the local mayor together with council members.
The neb sets a terrible precedent of forcing communities to all but give away world holding for private profit. Yet it passed the Assembly local authorities commission lastly calendar week together with goes to the Communication together with Conveyance Committee on July 12.
So — where are expanse Assembly members? Ash Kalra? Marc Berman? Evan Low?
They’re fresh from serving on metropolis councils. They could Pb the create exercise to halt SB 649 inwards the Assembly together with live the heroes of local government. And their voters.
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Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2017
Telecommunications companies are preparing to curlicue out the side yesteryear side generation of wireless networks, dubbed “5G,” which hope an enormous growth inwards capacity together with connectivity. These networks non only volition growth contest inwards broadband, they are a substitution enabling engineering scientific discipline for a host of advanced products together with services. They also stand upwards for a gateway to amend economical opportunities inwards inner-city areas that are underserved yesteryear broadband today.
But these novel networks are different inwards construction together with appearance too. Instead of high-powered antennas on tall towers, they rely on an array of lower-power transmitters closer to the Earth that serve much smaller “cells.” That’s why mobile telephone companies are concerned that cities together with counties volition throw upwards bureaucratic or fiscal roadblocks to 5G inwards their communities. It’s non a groundless worry; wireless companies already receive got encountered local resistance inwards places where they receive got introduced the novel technology.
It’s the await together with the intrusiveness of the pocket-sized jail cellular telephone networks that seems to spark the controversy. People are upset virtually the deployment of thousands of pieces of equipment the size of pocket-sized appliances beingness placed strategically together with liberally on publicly owned “vertical infrastructure” (that’s bureaucratese for municipal utility poles, street lights together with fifty-fifty traffic lights). That way a lot of equipment inwards total see together with inwards proximity — really close inwards unopen to cases — to houses together with people.
Local governments must retain unopen to authorisation to force dorsum on proposed deployments.
There is precedent for this sort of brazen move: The telephone together with cable TV companies persuaded the Legislature inwards 2006 to goal local command over the construction of novel cable TV systems, arguing that a shift to Earth licensing would select much-needed contest to pay TV. But that logic doesn’t apply to the mobile telephone market, where at that topographic point is vibrant competition. Local authorities officials are crying foul, calling it an audacious mightiness catch together with the equivalent of a gift of world funds to billion-dollar telecommunication companies that don’t involve the help.
The novel mobile networks also volition involve much to a greater extent than equipment inwards world see than an upstart cable TV system. Wireless companies say that the transmitters are typically the size of a pizza box or briefcase, although the neb would allow equipment upwards to the size of a pocket-sized refrigerator.
Sen. Ben Hueso (D-San Diego), the writer of SB 649, argues that wireless upgrades are a world benefit, together with thence local governments should non receive got the correct to endanger them amongst unreasonable hurdles. Besides, he says, the to a greater extent than that private cities are allowed to accuse for their pole rentals, the less that wireless companies volition receive got left for network upgrades inwards other, perhaps to a greater extent than needy communities. But the neb goes far beyond setting a reasonable fee to access world property; it would usurp the rights of cities together with counties to brand decisions virtually how to usage their property. Those rights include the correct to brand the incorrect decisions.
It’s clearly inwards everyone’s best involvement for 5G networks to live deployed, together with for sure most local governments would agree. But why shouldn’t cities together with counties live able to sweat to leverage their assets to teach a goodness handle for residents equally business office of the process, or accept the fourth dimension to teach the public’s input on what could live a pregnant alter to their physical together with virtual landscapes?
Small jail cellular telephone engineering scientific discipline does non receive got to live obtrusive or unattractive, nor volition every street inwards a community necessarily require outfitting. That’s why local governments must retain unopen to authorisation to force dorsum on proposed deployments. Left to their ain devices, telecommunication companies would naturally opt for the most efficient together with cost-effective configuration when making a working capital alphabetic quality investment. Their goals are making profits together with serving customers, non making a metropolis await nice.
The telecommunication manufacture has been pushing http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-power-pole-grab-20170705-story.html
As ane of the advisors to the Appeal, I recommend a moratorium on installation of jail cellular telephone antennas until our authorities commissions an independent review of the biologic together with wellness enquiry to determine stringent radio frequency standards that ensure our safety.
On September 13, over 180 scientists together with doctors from 35 countries sent a declaration to officials of the European Commission demanding a moratorium on the growth of jail cellular telephone antennas for planned 5G expansion. Concerns over wellness effects from higher radiations exposure include potential neurological impacts, infertility, together with cancer.
In the U.S., the Federal Communication Commission's radio frequency guidelines were adopted to a greater extent than than 2 decades agone together with address only risks from heating (i.e., thermal effects). The guidelines were non designed to protect the population from verifiable non-thermal wellness risks associated amongst wireless radiations exposure.
Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D.
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Editorial Board, Mercury News, Oct 20, 2017
Sometimes goodness authorities is less virtually making goodness things lead house than stopping bad things from happening.
In that spirit — give thank yous you, Gov. Jerry Brown ….
He also rejected a neb to accept disputes over H2O rights away from the State Water Resources Control Board — that is, the experts — together with assign them to administrative law judges unlikely to live sufficiently educated inwards the highly complex field. Guess who wins inwards that scenario.
The jail cellular telephone antenna neb was the most flagrant sellout yesteryear the Legislature. Hundreds of cities together with nearly 50 counties were upwards inwards arms, faced amongst losing substantial revenue — at to the lowest degree $30 1000000 a twelvemonth statewide together with probable much more.
Even to a greater extent than galling, communities would receive got been stripped of bargaining mightiness to teach companies to supply high speed service to wretched neighborhoods fifty-fifty though the wealthy ones that generate most of their profits.
As ane instance of potential harm, the law would receive got given the companies priority over cities’ together with counties’ ain plans for world security communications equipment on world property.
In his veto message, Brown, who has served equally Oakland’s mayor, mentioned the questionable legality of taking away communities’ correct to command their ain property, amidst other valid criticisms. Questionable indeed.
Lawmakers who pushed this bill, SB 649 yesteryear Sen. Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, should live ashamed of themselves. It was a straight sellout to a powerful manufacture at the expense of constituents ….
On both these bills, Brown stood for broad world rights against moneyed interests. It was the governor at his best.
Jerry Brown stops invasion of the jail cellular telephone phone antennas together with other bad legislation
Editorial Board, Mercury News, Oct 20, 2017
Sometimes goodness authorities is less virtually making goodness things lead house than stopping bad things from happening.
In that spirit — give thank yous you, Gov. Jerry Brown ….
He also rejected a neb to accept disputes over H2O rights away from the State Water Resources Control Board — that is, the experts — together with assign them to administrative law judges unlikely to live sufficiently educated inwards the highly complex field. Guess who wins inwards that scenario.
The jail cellular telephone antenna neb was the most flagrant sellout yesteryear the Legislature. Hundreds of cities together with nearly 50 counties were upwards inwards arms, faced amongst losing substantial revenue — at to the lowest degree $30 1000000 a twelvemonth statewide together with probable much more.
Even to a greater extent than galling, communities would receive got been stripped of bargaining mightiness to teach companies to supply high speed service to wretched neighborhoods fifty-fifty though the wealthy ones that generate most of their profits.
As ane instance of potential harm, the law would receive got given the companies priority over cities’ together with counties’ ain plans for world security communications equipment on world property.
In his veto message, Brown, who has served equally Oakland’s mayor, mentioned the questionable legality of taking away communities’ correct to command their ain property, amidst other valid criticisms. Questionable indeed.
Lawmakers who pushed this bill, SB 649 yesteryear Sen. Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, should live ashamed of themselves. It was a straight sellout to a powerful manufacture at the expense of constituents ….
On both these bills, Brown stood for broad world rights against moneyed interests. It was the governor at his best.
Senate Bill 649, authored yesteryear Sen. Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, together with passed yesteryear the Legislature lastly month, would receive got all but given away world infrastructure to wealthy corporations.
Verizon, AT&T together with other wireless providers receive got pushed such legislation hither together with elsewhere to ease deployment of so-called small-cell equipment that boosts coverage provided yesteryear larger jail cellular telephone towers, specially inwards urban areas together with inwards anticipation of fifth-generation (5G) network technology. The neb would receive got granted the companies rights similar to those of utilities, leaving local governments amongst express mightiness to laid fees or confine placement on streetlights together with traffic signal poles.
The companies, which receive got spent tens of millions of dollars on political contributions inwards California over the yesteryear few years, already savor generous Earth together with federal protections. They shouldn’t teach unfettered usage of what was built together with paid for yesteryear the public.
Verizon, AT&T together with other wireless providers receive got pushed such legislation hither together with elsewhere to ease deployment of so-called small-cell equipment that boosts coverage provided yesteryear larger jail cellular telephone towers, specially inwards urban areas together with inwards anticipation of fifth-generation (5G) network technology. The neb would receive got granted the companies rights similar to those of utilities, leaving local governments amongst express mightiness to laid fees or confine placement on streetlights together with traffic signal poles.
The companies, which receive got spent tens of millions of dollars on political contributions inwards California over the yesteryear few years, already savor generous Earth together with federal protections. They shouldn’t teach unfettered usage of what was built together with paid for yesteryear the public.
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Gov. Jerry Brown’s veto messages ship message to California Legislature: Don't
The deadline for activeness on bills passed yesteryear the California Legislature has come upwards together with gone, together with Gov. Jerry Brown is ane time once to a greater extent than playing his usage equally the vox of mature wisdom inwards Sacramento. Examples: ...
-- He vetoed Senate Bill 649, which would receive got sharply streamlined the permitting procedure together with express fees for installing equipment such equally pocket-sized jail cellular telephone towers used yesteryear the jail cellular telephone phone industry. In his veto message, Brown acknowledged the importance of this “innovative technology” but said a “more balanced solution” made to a greater extent than feel than stripping local governments of their authority.
In Brown’s veto messages, mutual themes are evident. He doesn’t similar bills that tin give the sack live seen as posturing. He doesn’t similar bills that could receive got unforeseen complications. And he really, actually doesn’t similar cluttering authorities code amongst novel laws that address problems covered yesteryear existing laws ....http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/editorials/sd-brown-veto-messages-20171016-story.html
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Veto SB 649
Editorial Board, Sacramento Bee, Sep 28, 2017
AT&T is used to getting its way inwards the Capitol. Once again, AT&T was able to musculus through legislation, this time Senate Bill 649 by Sen. Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, which would arrive easier for telecommunication companies to house so-called pocket-sized jail cellular telephone wireless contraptions on utility polls for 5G technology.
Backers made belatedly concessions. But the vast bulk of local officials stay opposed, proverb they would lose likewise much command over the looks of their cities. We don’t believe local authorities should impose undue burdens on business. Nor exercise nosotros believe the Legislature should leave of absence of its way to big-foot local governments, together with certainly non at the behest of ane of the companies amongst the biggest feet of all.
Brown, the one-time Oakland mayor, should honor the concept of subsidiarity, together with urge lawmakers together with their telecom benefactors to sweat ane time to a greater extent than inwards 2018.
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Gov. Brown, veto the neb that lets rich telecoms use public holding practically free
Editorial Board, Mercury News, Sep 25, 2017
Photo caption Gov. Jerry Brown, shown at a Caltrain event, is the lastly hope for California cities to locomote on command of where telecom antennas go.
The California Legislature wants to give telecom companies a squeamish large gift: at to the lowest degree $30 1000000 a year, together with perhaps billions of dollars inwards savings at the straight expense of cities that both rely on the coin together with usage their electrical flow leverage to negotiate improved coverage for wretched neighborhoods.
Gov. Jerry Brown — or, perhaps to a greater extent than to the point, one-time Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown — has to halt it. He should veto SB 649, which gives telecoms carte blanche to position their “small cell” antennas on whatever world holding — street lights, world buildings — amongst a token fee, instead of negotiating amongst cities for the usage of taxpayer-owned facilities.
It’s an outrageous giveaway to companies whose profits are inwards the tens of billions. And it’s a slap inwards the human face upwards to California residents together with taxpayers, who shouldn’t live forced to allow access to world holding without only compensation. It volition enhance serious liability issues, but lawmakers left that upwards to cities to resolve, fifty-fifty though they took away cities’ bargaining power.
The thought is that this intermission volition enable telecoms to fast-track communication improvements together with accomplish to a greater extent than people. But telecoms, dissimilar nearly all California cities, are rolling inwards money. This is why lawmakers, looking to their ain political futures, favor them.
In cities similar San Jose, removing cities’ correct to negotiate placement together with compensation volition skewer electrical flow programs to expand together with improve broadband access inwards wretched neighborhoods where telecoms receive got footling involvement inwards investing. Companies tin give the sack brand to a greater extent than coin beefing upwards service inwards the Almaden Valley than inwards Alum Rock, or inwards Lamorinda rather than the flatlands of Oakland.
As the Greenlining Institute, which plant for racial together with economical justice, says: “SB 649 volition non unopen the digital divide. Instead, it volition allow telephone together with broadband providers to override community decisions virtually how those communities usage world space.”
No wonder 300 cities together with 47 counties opposed the bill. So did several project organizations and, yesteryear the way, the California Department of Finance:
“Finance opposes this bill,” says its report. “While statewide uniform rules tin give the sack assist the expansion of novel technologies, this bill goes likewise far yesteryear usurping metropolis together with county zoning authorisation for infrastructure development, and it potentially imposes reimbursable, state-mandated costs on cities together with counties.”
By all but giving away world holding to for-profit companies, the neb volition bound cities’ together with counties’ mightiness to locate their ain communication equipment, including police pull together with burn downwards systems, together with equipment from corporate partners helping to equalize Internet access.
So it’s upwards to the governor. The one-time mayor. Brown understands the struggle of wretched communities together with the importance of local command over world property. Get out the veto pen,
Governor. We’re counting on you.
Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2017)
The legislature, equally good equally most newspapers, receive got ignored the potential wellness risks from the proliferation of jail cellular telephone antennas necessary for 5G adoption including widespread exposure of the population to novel radio frequency bands including millimeter waves. As many as 50,000 novel jail cellular telephone sites will live required inwards California alone.
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California should butt out of cities’ dealings with telecom companies using world facilities
Editorial Board, Mercury News, July 11, 2017
A Earth neb that would give huge telecom companies a fiscal intermission together with unprecedented rights to usage world holding at almost no terms is sailing through the Legislature this summer.
Why? Money, of course. Telecom companies mensurate profits inwards the tens of billions. California lawmakers sympathise this, together with so that’s whose side they’re on. The neb sailed through the Senate. Now it’s upwards to the Assembly to stand upwards up for communities — specially low-income neighborhoods — that volition live harmed yesteryear it.
SB 649 would prohibit cities from whatever discretionary review or world say on plans to position “small cell” wireless antennas on publicly owned lite poles together with other structures inwards whatever neighborhood. (Yes, fifty-fifty your neighborhood.) And it would sharply bound fees that cities accuse private manufacture for using holding or facilities that taxpayers receive got paid for.
Sponsored yesteryear Sen. Ben Hueso, D-Chula Vista, SB 649 is billed equally cutting through permitting cherry record together with improving jail cellular telephone phone service. But it volition slash existing revenue to cities such equally San Francisco, which stands to lose millions of dollars a year. And it volition eviscerate cities’ mightiness to select high-speed Internet service to low-income neighborhoods, equally San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has promised to exercise for East San Jose.
Other mayors are joining Liccardo together with the League of California Cities to create exercise this outrageous mightiness catch yesteryear the Earth together with telecoms. We hope it’s non likewise late.
Here are a few of SB 649’s problems:
By preventing cities from negotiating over antenna locations, the neb eliminates their mightiness to force companies to supply high-speed access inwards underprivileged areas. Without that leverage, companies volition focus only on areas where they brand the most money.
By limiting fees, the neb deprives cities of revenue they could usage to growth access to broadband inwards those wretched neighborhoods. Companies volition salve an estimated $30 1000000 statewide over 10 years — at the terms of world services.
By making world holding broadly available to for-profit companies, the neb volition bound cities’ together with counties’ mightiness to locate their ain communication equipment, such equally police pull together with burn downwards systems together with equipment from partners — potentially Facebook inwards San Jose — working on ways to assist equalize Internet access.
And hold off until neighbors notice out they receive got no say over the clumps of electronic equipment that demo upwards on lite poles nigh their houses. But Earth legislators don’t aid virtually that. People won’t telephone telephone them; they’ll scream to the local mayor together with council members.
The neb sets a terrible precedent of forcing communities to all but give away world holding for private profit. Yet it passed the Assembly local authorities commission lastly calendar week together with goes to the Communication together with Conveyance Committee on July 12.
So — where are expanse Assembly members? Ash Kalra? Marc Berman? Evan Low?
They’re fresh from serving on metropolis councils. They could Pb the create exercise to halt SB 649 inwards the Assembly together with live the heroes of local government. And their voters.
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An audacious 5G mightiness (pole) grab
Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times, July 5, 2017
Telecommunications companies are preparing to curlicue out the side yesteryear side generation of wireless networks, dubbed “5G,” which hope an enormous growth inwards capacity together with connectivity. These networks non only volition growth contest inwards broadband, they are a substitution enabling engineering scientific discipline for a host of advanced products together with services. They also stand upwards for a gateway to amend economical opportunities inwards inner-city areas that are underserved yesteryear broadband today.
But these novel networks are different inwards construction together with appearance too. Instead of high-powered antennas on tall towers, they rely on an array of lower-power transmitters closer to the Earth that serve much smaller “cells.” That’s why mobile telephone companies are concerned that cities together with counties volition throw upwards bureaucratic or fiscal roadblocks to 5G inwards their communities. It’s non a groundless worry; wireless companies already receive got encountered local resistance inwards places where they receive got introduced the novel technology.
It’s the await together with the intrusiveness of the pocket-sized jail cellular telephone networks that seems to spark the controversy. People are upset virtually the deployment of thousands of pieces of equipment the size of pocket-sized appliances beingness placed strategically together with liberally on publicly owned “vertical infrastructure” (that’s bureaucratese for municipal utility poles, street lights together with fifty-fifty traffic lights). That way a lot of equipment inwards total see together with inwards proximity — really close inwards unopen to cases — to houses together with people.
Local governments must retain unopen to authorisation to force dorsum on proposed deployments.
There is precedent for this sort of brazen move: The telephone together with cable TV companies persuaded the Legislature inwards 2006 to goal local command over the construction of novel cable TV systems, arguing that a shift to Earth licensing would select much-needed contest to pay TV. But that logic doesn’t apply to the mobile telephone market, where at that topographic point is vibrant competition. Local authorities officials are crying foul, calling it an audacious mightiness catch together with the equivalent of a gift of world funds to billion-dollar telecommunication companies that don’t involve the help.
The novel mobile networks also volition involve much to a greater extent than equipment inwards world see than an upstart cable TV system. Wireless companies say that the transmitters are typically the size of a pizza box or briefcase, although the neb would allow equipment upwards to the size of a pocket-sized refrigerator.
Sen. Ben Hueso (D-San Diego), the writer of SB 649, argues that wireless upgrades are a world benefit, together with thence local governments should non receive got the correct to endanger them amongst unreasonable hurdles. Besides, he says, the to a greater extent than that private cities are allowed to accuse for their pole rentals, the less that wireless companies volition receive got left for network upgrades inwards other, perhaps to a greater extent than needy communities. But the neb goes far beyond setting a reasonable fee to access world property; it would usurp the rights of cities together with counties to brand decisions virtually how to usage their property. Those rights include the correct to brand the incorrect decisions.
It’s clearly inwards everyone’s best involvement for 5G networks to live deployed, together with for sure most local governments would agree. But why shouldn’t cities together with counties live able to sweat to leverage their assets to teach a goodness handle for residents equally business office of the process, or accept the fourth dimension to teach the public’s input on what could live a pregnant alter to their physical together with virtual landscapes?
Small jail cellular telephone engineering scientific discipline does non receive got to live obtrusive or unattractive, nor volition every street inwards a community necessarily require outfitting. That’s why local governments must retain unopen to authorisation to force dorsum on proposed deployments. Left to their ain devices, telecommunication companies would naturally opt for the most efficient together with cost-effective configuration when making a working capital alphabetic quality investment. Their goals are making profits together with serving customers, non making a metropolis await nice.
The telecommunication manufacture has been pushing http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-power-pole-grab-20170705-story.html
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A brazen telephone mightiness grab
Editorial Board, San Francisco Chronicle, June 28, 2017
Local governments should create upwards one's brain where jail cellular telephone phone equipment goes.
San Francisco has hundreds of them: slim cylinders together with apartment boxes strapped to utility poles that serve equally mini-cell towers to speed upwards wireless service. The devices are essential for anyone carrying a smartphone or tablet, but the dependent plain is breeding a battle over coin together with political control.
Telecom firms such equally Verizon together with AT&T are pushing Sacramento to overstep a law that would essentially take away the command cities together with counties straightaway receive got over where the equipment goes together with how much localities tin give the sack charge. In San Francisco’s case, the loss could total inwards the millions, according to Supervisor Mark Farrell, an opponent of the measure, SB 649.
His argument, backed yesteryear scores of other local jurisdictions, is virtually equally basic equally domicile dominion gets. Cities, non Sacramento, should receive got the terminal say on what private manufacture tin give the sack build inwards the world correct of way.
The telecoms are selling the mensurate equally a way to streamline approvals together with improve coverage, an appealing thought to anyone who’s had a telephone telephone dropped or Facebook session cutting off. But these companies also desire to curb the fees that local communities tin give the sack accuse to only a few hundred dollars per device.
In San Francisco’s experience, nearly all of the mini-cell towers are approved, making the statement virtually timeliness suspect. The existing rules give telecoms create access to telephone poles together with utility posts equally a way to fill upwards inwards broader jail cellular telephone phone service that tin give the sack live disrupted yesteryear tall buildings, thick walls or rolling landscape. Also, equally wireless needs grow, to a greater extent than bandwidth to handgrip the traffic is needed. Cities receive got responded amongst lease agreements together with worked out arrangements to position the wireless boxes inwards the correct spots.
This neb would shred that process. The measure, which is showing upwards inwards nearly identical shape inwards other states, is virtually cutting expenses together with avoiding local oversight. Health concerns virtually jail cellular telephone phone towers are non an number inwards this dispute since that theme is governed yesteryear federal rules.
The neb has already shot through the Earth Senate together with faces its commencement essay earlier the Assembly’s Local Government Committee on Wednesday. That panel should brain the criticism from their domicile communities together with halt a mensurate that subverts local control.
Other Newspaper Editorials inwards Opposition
Daily Bruin, July 16, 2017
DanvilleSanRamon, July 6, 2017
East Bay Times, June 9, 2017
Ventura County Star, May 22, 2017
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