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Taxpayer advocates fret over Waco broadband discussions
Tom Struble, tech policy manager at R Street Institute in Washington, D.C., said that while Section 224 of the federal Communications Act gives the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authority to regulate rates of pole attachments (that is, the equipment attached to utility poles, such as fiber-optics), the section has a “reverse presumption” provision that allows states to certify that they can regulate those attachment rates.
“It’s a weird, sort of quirky law because by default the FCC’s rules apply across the board, but states can reverse or preempt the FCC and adopt their own pole-attachment regime,” Struble told The Texas Monitor.
