(Download) "Mason v. Florida Bar" by Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ~ eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Mason v. Florida Bar
- Author : Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 06, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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The 1996 Pole Attachment Act, 47 U.S.C. ร§ 224 (Supp.II.1996) (the "1996 Act"), gives providers of cable and telecommunications services the right to attach wires to the poles of power and telephone companies. If the power and telephone companies will not accept the rent the providers offer to pay, the Federal Communications Commission (the "FCC" or "Commission") sets the rent. In In re Implementation of Section 703(e) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 13 F.C.C.R. 6777 (1998) (codified at 47 C.F.R. ร§ร§ 1.1401 -1.1418 (1999)) ("Report and Order "), the FCC promulgated a formula for computing that rent. The FCC also ruled (in the Report and Order ) that the 1996 Act precluded utilities (power and telephone) from receiving rent for wires that were "overlashed" to wires previously attached to their poles; that the 1996 Act gave it authority to regulate the placement of wireless communications equipment and attachments for Internet service on utility poles; and that the Act precluded utilities from receiving rent for unused wires contained within fiber optic cables, "dark fiber," attached to the poles.