Acting ahead of pending state legislation that could preempt certain local regulation, the Sandy Springs City Council has adopted an ordinance applicable to small wireless providers. The measure anticipates small cell towers with the rollout of 5G cellular service. Under the ordin...

During last week’s Future of Wireless Connectivity, Innovation and Investment breakfast briefing hosted by the Greater Baltimore Committee, Crown Castle government relations manager Richard Rothrock participated, noting Crown Castle "has already deployed between 600 and 650 ...

The Taneytown, MD Mayor and City Council discussed an ordinance "that would place limits on the implementation of small cell wireless apparatuses erected on public grounds in the city." The ordinance "would establish a framework for aesthetic criteria that a small-cell provider wo...

AGL Media Group reported that there may be other factors affecting small cell rollout, such as regulatory uncertainty surrounding the FCC small cell order. Crown Castle’s Scott Longhurst was quoted stating "we are in a strange 90-day window. Even though the small cell order ...

Omar Abbosh, group chief executive of Accenture’s Communications, Media & Technology operating group, and Larry Downes, Senior Fellow with Accenture Research, published an article in Harvard Business Review highlighting the findings of a new Accenture survey of nearly 2,000 ...

The town of Bel Air is developing four pieces of legislation, including Ordinance 789-19 and three resolutions that apply to regulating the placement of small cell technology. Town Planning Director Kevin Small said "it’s the intention of the town to allow our citizens to re...