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House adopts substitute to small-cell deployment bill aimed at standardizing fees and speeding rollouts
Summary
The House adopted a third substitute to Senate Bill 189 on March 7, 2018, creating a uniform framework for small wireless facilities and fee schedules to expedite deployments; sponsors said exemptions protect rural power providers and the bill passed 63–0.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah House adopted a substituted version of Senate Bill 189 on March 7, 2018, a measure designed to standardize how municipalities and carriers manage small wireless facilities that improve cellular coverage and support technologies such as 5G and smart-city applications.
Representative Mike Hawkes, the House sponsor, told colleagues the bill creates uniform fee schedules and implementation rules so networks can deploy small cell infrastructure more quickly and predictably. "This carefully crafted bill, consensus bill, is…
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