Don't Apply Calif. Tribal Land Policy to Telecom, Say Carriers
California’s tribal land transfer policy (TLTP) doesn’t apply to wireless companies, CTIA said in Friday reply comments at the California Public Utilities Commission. The CPUC is considering updates to the 2019 policy, which directs investor-owned utilities to give tribes notice…
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and a right of first refusal in property sales, in docket 22-02-002. “Applying the TLTP to wireless providers could hinder investment and rapid deployment of 5G networks, and would advance none of the core goals of this proceeding,” wrote CTIA: And it’s unlawful. Extending the TLTP to all telecom carriers would conflict with previous CPUC decisions that exempted certain carriers, agreed Verizon.