WIA Raises Flood Plain Concerns at FCC
Wireless Infrastructure Association representatives raised concerns about potential rules on siting wireless and broadcast towers, small cells and other facilities in flood plains (see 2204110047). Updated flood risk guidance “could require the retrofitting of existing sites” and “could be prohibitively…
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costly without adding relevant resiliency to wireless networks,” WIA said. The WIA representatives met with an aide to FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, said a filing posted Wednesday in docket 20-32. WIA also discussed the recently adopted 5G Fund Further NPRM and “how improvements to service maps should enable the Commission to precisely target funds to areas most needing it.”