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PITTSBURGH – A federal judge has denied without prejudice an attempt by the City of Pittsburgh and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to dismiss litigation from AT&T, which asserted that the defendants violated the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by their limiting of the company’s ability to place wireless facilities on telephone poles in the City’s rights-of-way.

Assembly Local Government Committee Hearing Set for Wednesday, April 14 - Assembly Bill 537 would expand Government Code section 65964.1 to provide a deemed granted...

Schubert | Riley Riper Hollin & Colagreco PITTSBURGH – AT&T has sued both the City of Pittsburgh and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, claiming both entities violated the Telecommunications Act of 1996, in their limiting of the company’s ability to place “small cell” wireless facilities on telephone poles in the City’s rights-of-way. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC (doing business as “AT&T Mobility”) of King of Prussia filed suit in the U.S. District Cou...

Oppose SB 556: Hearing Set for April 19 Four years after California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed Senate Bill 649, an industry-sponsored “small cell” bill, the wireless industry is back with another bill: SB 556. The new bill would dramatically expand the scope of an existing law that allows communications companies to use municipal electric “utility poles” for their wireline and wireless facilities. This would be done by broadening the types of public infrastructure that must be made availab...