Gabriel Garcia Presentation - NATOA

Policy Implications and Response to
Industry Changes
Policy implications resulting from industry changes:
• Cities are receiving ROW compensation based on yesterday’s telecom
technology and regulatory definitions.
• City franchise revenues are not benefiting from growth in new
broadband technologies although broadband infrastructure uses
municipal ROW.
Policy response to industry changes:
• Cities should call for new regulatory structure that will allow them to
share in the revenues from tomorrow’s broadband technology that
uses municipal ROW.
• New regulatory structure should recognize that wireless towers use
municipal ROW to connect to central offices and other towers for
which cities should be compensated.
• This will require advocacy before Congress, Capitol Hill and FCC.
• NATOA is poised to take the lead.
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