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Committee approves reporting requirement for pole‑attachment requests to speed broadband rollout
Summary
Senate Bill 502, as amended, would require entities seeking attachments to utility poles for broadband to report quarterly application and completion data to the Indiana Broadband Office, which would publish the information and monitor progress. The committee approved the amendment and passed the bill 9–1 amid broad stakeholder discussion on
The Senate Utilities Committee passed an amended version of Senate Bill 502 that requires entities seeking attachments on utility poles to report quarterly on pole‑attachment applications and completions to the Indiana Broadband Office, which will publish the data on its website and hold the information for five years.
Senator Tony Zay and Chairman Cook framed the bill as a practical step to reduce delays in a large federal and state broadband deployment. “We’re now in the precip of the federal infrastructure bill,” Zay said, and the committee heard testimony that the state will administer hundreds of millions in federal BEAD funding in addition to state subsidies.
Steve Cox, chief broadband…
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