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Committee recommends SFPUC master license agreement with Mobility for small-cell installations
Summary
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Committee recommended a 12-year master license agreement (MLA) with Mobility Investment 3, LLC for distributed antenna system pole installations, with the SFPUC and budget analyst seeking annual reporting on locations and counts; Mobility said the deal would bring revenue and improved wireless coverage.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget & Finance Committee on Jan. 28 recommended that the full board approve a 12-year master license agreement allowing Mobility Investment 3, LLC to install distributed antenna system (DAS) equipment on city street poles.
Barbara Hale, assistant general manager for power at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told the committee the MLA is the third of its kind presented to the board and that, like the earlier agreements, it carries a 12‑year term. "This agreement with Mobility would show over the 12 year period between 10 and $16,000,000 in revenue for the PUC," Hale said, asking the committee to forward the item with an amendment mirroring language from a December board action to appropriate lease revenues to the streetlight program.
The committee's budget analyst recommended a reporting requirement. Mr. Rose said the legislation and agreements currently allow an unlimited number of pole installations in principle and urged the board to require the SFPUC to file an annual report with each MLA resolution showing the number and locations of resulting street-pole DAS licenses.
Mobility's vice president and corporate counsel, Jim Grass, told the committee the company has deployed outdoor DAS in major U.S. cities and that the small cells proposed for San Francisco have a smaller visual footprint than traditional macro sites. "Aside from the obvious financial benefits that this contract will bring to this city, it will also result in more reliable and more robust wireless networks here in the city," Grass said, asking the committee to approve the agreement as presented.
The committee agreed to the proposed amendments and moved the resolution forward to the full Board of Supervisors without recorded objection. The full board will consider the MLA and the recommended amendment to formalize annual reporting on counts and locations of DAS pole licenses.
