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Monday, August 20, 2018 Volume 6 | Issue 162

Some Contractors Told to Meet Night Work Demands...or Elseby Leslie Stimson, Inside Towers Washington Bureau ChiefNighttime tower work brings complications and dangers that some contractors would rather not face, however, manyare not getting that option. Some contractors allege carrier demand is forcing them to decide whether to schedulenight work or potentially lose a client. While not written into the contract, some small business owners claim thatoften, a carrier’s local market manager will tell the contractor the tower maintenance window is overnight.

“When you’re swapping out an antenna or changing a radio, you have to take that [network] sector down,” a medium-size tower contractor owner tells Inside Towers in an interview. “What makes sense about ascending in the dark forsomething you haven’t seen in the light?” he asked rhetorically.

While nighttime work requests have occurred in the past, they’re increasing, and in some cases, turning into amandate, according to this business owner. “The worst abuse is happening from market managers who haveperformance metric pressure and financial compensation tied to performance” metrics, he says. “It doesn’t matter tome if the sector is down for an hour. It matters to them.” Continue Reading

FCC Establishes Rules for Rural Telecom RegistryUPDATE The FCC took another step towards ensuring rural calls are completed when the agency adopted rules toestablish a registry for intermediate providers; these telecoms must register with the FCC before offering to transmitvoice calls.

The Commission is implementing the Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act, signed into law by thePresident in February. The measure required the agency to establish registry and call completion standards. In ruralAmerica, calls may be handed off several times to different carriers — called intermediate providers. Those calls maybe dropped, inaudible or delayed. Now, the FCC is putting the onus on the originating carrier to make sure the callgoes through. Continue Reading CaliforniaTown Clips Crown’s Wires in Fiber DisputeThe battle between the City of Thousand Oaks and Crown Castle, doing business as Sunesys, a recently acquired

subsidiary, is taking place underground, according to The Thousand Oaks Acorn. The conflict is causing internetoutages in campuses throughout the school district. The city said Crown failed to meet a June 15 deadline forvacating the system and proceeded to shut it down along with web access to 17 schools in the district.

Sunesys had been using the conduits prior to their sale to Crown and were tasked to build a 190,000 linear foot darkfiber network for the county school system. A formal agreement with the city was never reached on use of theirconduits and they notified Crown, having since bought Sunesys, they must vacate the system, the Acorn reported. When the deadline passed, the city had crewmen physically cut the lines to the fiber network.

Trent Horvath, Crown Castle’s west region district manager, told the Acorn the company originally decided to use theconduits at the suggestion of city officials. He said his organization had drafted an agreement with the city butnegotiations stalled when the deal was “90 percent complete.”

New YorkSeeds of Change: Flower Hill Revises Local Wireless Telecom LawThe Village of Flower Hill Board of Trustees held a public hearing regarding small cell regulation local law H-2018amending chapter 235, related to wireless telecommunication facilities, reported the Port Washington News.

The chapter states, “in recognition of advancing technology and the increased demand and need for wirelesscommunications towers and other transmission facilities, the village board hereby determines that it is in the publicinterest to regulate the siting and installation of such facilities within the village in order to protect public safety andwelfare.”

According to village administrator Ronnie Shatzkamer, current law only applies to towers, not small cells, so theyneeded “to update the laws.” There’s currently a proposal by ExteNet under review to install 18 small cells on existingpoles in the right-of-way throughout the village. Questions arose as to whether fees negotiated were high enough.Continue Reading

North CarolinaCharlotte Welcomes “Technology Revolution”On the brink of the next seismic technological change, one that will be supported by next-generation 5G wireless,North Carolina, and Charlotte are gearing up for the revolution.

The Charlotte Post reported that people in all areas of the state need to have access to 5G, so development not onlyin cities but small towns will be important, especially those areas with outdated wireless infrastructure. The number ofsmall cells needed to support 5G and the “often time-consuming, red tape-laden, expensive permitting process makeit a challenge for small communities, since those areas might be put further down the priority list by providers,” thePost editorial stated.

Now, the FCC is taking steps to streamline and standardize the permitting process, and many states and cities aredoing the same. There has been some pushback at local levels over fears that communities could lose zoning controland fee revenues, but the expanded services and employment opportunities it offers may be even more important toNorth Carolina residents.

The state is focusing on making sure local governments implement smart policies that don’t stand in the way ofprogress, welcoming the new “technology revolution” to the city.

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Korean Carrier to Install Earthquake Sensors on 8,000 SitesSK Telecom will install sensors at the base stations of 300 of their towers and over 7,000 additional sites to helpdetect earthquakes.

The work is scheduled for completion by 2020, with the data synched to the Korea Meteorological Administration,which reported 223 earthquakes last year. The sites are optimal locations for sensors, the carrier said, as they havesecure 24 hour access and are climate controlled. The sensor, according to SK Telecom, is the size of a smartphoneand can read in real-time, an earthquake's strength, size, and wave.

SQUAN Hires John Ferrara as CFOSQUAN, provider of design/build services for network infrastructure, appointed JohnFerrara as the firm’s new Chief Financial Officer. He will serve as an advisor to the CEODuane Albro. Ferrara’s most recent and relatable experience was as CFO for Cartesian,Inc., a consulting firm focused on global telecommunications, media and technology. He

was also CFO for CNN’s TheStreet.

Ferrara holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a BS in Accounting from the University of Maryland,College Park. His experience in building companies through organic and acquisition-based strategies will, accordingto the company announcement, “add revitalized focus on SQUAN’s expansion into new network technologysolutions.” Former FCC Chief Economist Talks Wireless Spectrum on C-SPAN Today

In an interview for C-SPAN's 'The Communicators' series, former FCC Chief EconomistThomas Hazlett — now a Clemson University professor, talks about the history ofwireless spectrum regulation and his book “The Political Spectrum.” He suggests thatregulation actually held back spectrum development and created a vast wasteland.

Asked who he wrote the book for, Hazlett said: “anybody who’s interested in the way theeconomy works,” who’s “fascinated by the new wireless technologies,” some of the

barriers that had to be overcome and some that remain in place. The interview airs this morning on C-SPAN2 at 8a.m. and tonight at 8 p.m ET.

MissouriWater Tower Work Bumps Verizon to a New SiteVerizon will be required to move to a temporary facility in Trenton while the county does some repairs on the localwater tower, according to station KTTN/KGOZ. Grundy County Emergency Management Director Glen Briggsnotified Verizon of the timeline for the project saying it could be finished by early November.

Verizon issued a notice to customers, saying they are trying not to allow for an interruption in service but it “may beaffected.” Once the water tower maintenance is completed, they anticipate no change in service.

WWLF Debuts Impact Discussion GroupsSaying its mission is to provide networking opportunities, educational enhancement andcareer development for women in the wireless industry, the Women's Wireless LeadershipForum is offering a new member benefit called Impact. Impact is a WWLF discussion group.

The purpose “is to facilitate a meeting of the minds and foster discussion to support, empower and enrich the lives ofour members,” they say in the announcement. With the discussion groups, WWLF hopes members can: meet newpeople, learn new things, share ideas, encourage each other, have fun and positively impact each other’s lives.

Visit www.wwlf.org for upcoming discussion group schedules or register if you are interested in attending in a citynear you. Impact Chicago is scheduled for August 30, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at Bahama Breeze (406 E Golf Road,Schaumburg, IL 60173). Please RSVP by August 27.

Also scheduled is Impact Houston on September 27, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at Crown Castle (1220 Augusta Drive,Suite 600, Houston, TX 77057). Renee Morales from Texas 5G Alliance is the scheduled guest speaker.

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