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PITTSBURGH – The City of Pittsburgh and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have lost an attempt 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.
PITTSBURGH – The City of Pittsburgh and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania have now made their second attempt 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.
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.
A bill in the state Legislature that seeks to improve high-speed internet availability by reducing local control over the installation of the necessary infrastructure has passed the Senate over the objection of its opponents in local government.
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 Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania on April 6 versus the defendants. “AT&T has been attem...