• Verizon Wireless enters Consent Decree with FCC [telecom]

    From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 21 10:45:27 2022
    The Enforcement Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission has
    entered into a Consent Decree to resolve its investigation into
    whether Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) constructed wireless facilities without complying with the Commission’s environmental and historic preservation rules, including rules
    implementing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and
    the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA).

    ...

    To settle this matter, Verizon Wireless

    (i) admits that it violated the Commission’s environmental and
    historic preservation rules by prematurely constructing wireless
    facilities prior to completing the required environmental or
    historical reviews and by constructing wireless facilities
    without onsite monitoring as requested by the affected tribes

    (ii) will implement a robust compliance plan to ensure that it does
    not violate these rules in the future, and

    (iii) will pay a $950,000 civil penalty.

    https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-22-1339A1.pdf

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    Bill Horne
    Moderator, The Telecom Digest

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