Comcast’s $462,123 proposal, which would have connected 96 percent of households in Charlemont, Massachusetts with high-speed internet was rejected by town meeting voters. Instead, Charlemont has decided to build its own fiber optic broadband network. The project funding would come from a combination of local taxation and a state infrastructure grant.
Dish Network making tower crews 'very busy' nationwide
Dish Network increased production and is beginning to focus on its current network in Las Vegas (NV) within the next few months. The article stated, "Executives from American Tower and Crown Castle – the two other big cell tower operators in the US, alongside SBA – also said Dish i...
Sumner schools provide FAQs to parents on opening plans
Sumner County (TN) board members approved Crown Castle’s lease extension for a tower behind Indian Lake Elementary School. The company will pay $28,000 rent to keep the tower in place, but it must be moved within 60 days after August 31, 2022. "We don’t want the cell tower there an...
U.S. counts more than 417K cell sites as of 2020
CTIA released topline results of an annual survey focused on wireless investment. The group highlighted that 67,871 cell sites turned on between 2018 and 2020, totaling more than the previous seven years combined. CTIA indicated changes in federal cell siting rules, made by the FCC in 2018, he...
Crown Castle cuts small cell outlook in half for 2021, 2022
Gov. Wolf signed a bill to accelerate 5G infrastructure construction in PA
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed the Small Wireless Facilities Deployment Act, or House Bill 1621, on Wednesday, passing new regulation for small cell deployment that will streamline new 5G infrastructure construction. "It is very difficult and inefficient to develop networks at scale whi...
Back in the Saddle Again: South Wireless Summit Opens Today in Nashville
The South Wireless Summit will open today, June 28, with face-to-face meeting at the Nashville Gun Club. Crown Castle Vice President Amelia DeJesus will talk on the WWLF Panel from 6:30 to 7:10 pm. President and Chairperson of the Summit told Inside Towers, "We are looking forward to seeing al...