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State Actions Key to Speeding Deployment of 5G, Verizon Tells Carr Aide

Verizon supports recent actions by more than a dozen states, including Arizona, Iowa, North Carolina and Delaware, to enact laws “modernizing wireless facilities siting,” Verizon officials said they told an aide to FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. “Even as the Commission…

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considers ways to remove state or local impediments to deployment, it should encourage states to pursue a policy framework for access, timeliness, and fees that protects local interests while also facilitating the network deployment that will bring their citizens the economic and social benefits of 5G,” said a filing posted Monday in docket 17-79. The Verizon representatives said they also discussed how the FCC can “speed wireless broadband deployment and pave the way for enhanced 4G and 5G networks by removing impediments to wireless facility siting, particularly small cells.”