Infrastructure encompasses a broad range of legal/regulatory communications issues that affect the physical facilities that UTC’s members use to provide essential services to the public at large. One of the main issues is pole attachment regulation, which requires certain utilities to provide cable television operators and telecommunications carriers non-discriminatory access to poles, ducts and conduit at regulated rates that are “just and reasonable”. Another main issue is the use of infrastructure to support new lines of business, such as broadband, telecommunications, video and wireless collocation. There are other certain legal/regulatory issues, such as microwave relocation, that affect the physical infrastructure as well as the spectrum that utilities use. The infrastructure issues Webpage covers these three main areas, providing recent FCC decisions and UTC comments in various proceedings, as well as court decisions from appeals of those decisions and legislation and regulations by Congress and the states pertaining to infrastructure issues.

For more information on these issues, click on the general links below. If you still have questions, contact [1] the UTC Legal/Regulatory Department.

Pole Attachments

• Amendment of the Commission's Rules and Policies Governing Pole Attachments (WC Docket No. 07-245)
  • Implementation
    of Section 224 of the Act; Amendment of the Commission’s Rules and
    Policies Governing Pole Attachments (WC Docket No. 07-245) [2]
  • Federal Register Notice for FCC NPRM on Pole Attachments [3]
  • UTC Comments
    [4]
  • UTC Survey Report 2007 [5]
  • EEI Comments [6]
• Access for Pole Attachments (Docket 96-98)
• Rates for Pole Attachments (Dockets 97-98, 97-151)
• Recent FCC Activity
  • Pole Attachment complaint decisions

Use of Infrastructure for New Lines of Business

• Municipal Broadband/Telecom
• Wireless Collocation
• Broadband Issues
• Telecom Issues

Other Infrastructure Issues

• Microwave relocation
• Tower Siting and FAA Clearance
• UTC's Presentation to FTTH Council [7]
• ARRL vs. FCC & Ambient - US Court of Appeals Decision, April 2008 [8]

If there are other issues in this area in which you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact [9] the UTC Legal/Regulatory Department.