Topic: pole attachment

AT&T says the FCC can help the telecom industry reduce timelines for make-ready processes by allowing new attachers to be called project managers.

Google Fiber and Verizon have come to loggerheads with the NCTA’s one-touch-make-ready (OTMR) plan to accelerate the make-ready process.

CenturyLink says broadband expansion will speed up by allowing attachers to overlash fiber on utility poles. Utilities aren't so hot on the idea.

AT&T says the FCC needs to provide a common definition of what makes up a complex vs. a simple One Touch Make Ready (OTMR) transfer.

Verizon says the OTMR process for new pole attachments should apply to what are deemed “simple” or “complex” make-ready processes.

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has left the FCC’s Broadband Development Advisory Committee (BDAC).

Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Congressman David McKinley (R-W.V.) introduced bills to ease utility pole access and laying underground fiber.

AT&T has asked the FCC to consider a new One Touch Make Ready process.

Bonds related to KentuckyWired’s plans to build a fiber network in Kentucky via a public-private partnership received a downgrade.

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