[1st-mile-nm] Intro and pole attachment question

[John Badal]

You would think that attaching fiber for broadband today to an existing pole line would be the most expedient way to reach homes and businesses, but the actual process is extremely cumbersome, somewhat arbitrary, expensive, and where multiple pole owners are involved, unpredictable.  This is not just a rural phenomenon, pitting rural ISPs versus rural electric coops -- dealing with the City of Albuquerque is time consuming,  expensive, heavily bureaucratic and seat of the pants managed.  Having to undergo a ponderous process to establishing a telecom easement on an electric pole line that already exists makes no sense unless broadband service to the end user is not the public policy objective we believe it is. 

John Badal



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From: 1st-mile-nm <1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org> On Behalf Of John Brown
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 3:02 PM
To: Harris, Brian, PRC <Brian.Harris at state.nm.us>
Cc: 1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org
Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Intro and pole attachment question

Hi,

NM is way behind in pole attachment support.  There have and continue to be issues.
The challenge that will exist in getting specifics from people is that the pole owners require that prospective attachers and current attachers must execute a NDA that basically prohibits them from sharing or discussing details or problems.

I suspect that such NDA may be worked around by proper legal / regulatory  process ;) ;)

In general I believe that NM should have a state level pole attachment process / rules.

Also, NM should have a one stop shop RoW ("Franchise") process, much like the CLEC process.
As it sits today a provider that wants to make use of RoW would have to negotiate more than 200 agreements across the state.
Just in the ABQ Metroplex
    City of ABQ
    City of Rio Rancho
    Town of Bernalillo
    Village of Placitas
    Village of Los Ranchos
    County of Bernalillo
    County of Sandoval
    State of New Mexico  (NM DOT)
    US Federal Gov, (sometimes they pass the buck to NM DOT)

Thats 8 NM based entities, each with their own internal and public facing processes.

Happy to discuss off-list as well

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 2:31 PM Harris, Brian, PRC <Brian.Harris at state.nm.us> wrote:
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> Brian Harris here.  I think I know a fair number of people on this list, having worked in telecom regulation for many years.  Currently I work for the NM Public Regulation Commission advising Chairperson Fischmann.
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> I've been reading through the FCC's 2018 R&O Infrastructure and it's had me thinking about pole attachment law and policy and wondering if current law is impeding deployment of additional high speed internet (broadband) infrastructure.  Have there been access issues?  Make ready issues?  Trouble finding ownership of the facility?
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> I'd also be interested in hearing about other infrastructure deployment issues that might be impeding the roll out of ubiquitous broadband.
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> Brian Harris
> 505-216-8569
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John Brown, CISSP
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