Charter Proposes 'Balanced Reforms' to Pole-Attachment Rules, Processes
Charter Communications is seeking "balanced reforms" to pole-attachment rules and processes. "Charter is uniquely positioned to discuss pole attachment reform as both an existing attacher and a new attacher," and it faced "extensive damage" in the former role, said a…
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filing posted Tuesday in docket 17-84 on a meeting with aides to all five FCC commissioners and Wireline Bureau staffers. It proposed: "(1) a reasonable 30-day advance notice period to give existing attachers the opportunity to move their equipment, (2) a requirement that, if existing attachers were unable to move their equipment within that 30 days, new attachers could use contractors on an existing attachers’ list of approved contractors to do any make-ready work, and (3) time for an existing attacher to inspect the make-ready work that was done and (4) indemnification by the new attacher for any damages." It also proposed rules to "encourage application transparency, create reasonable deadlines to complete pre-construction surveys and make-ready estimates, expand the use of pre-approved contractors, and facilitate attachments on jointly-owned poles."