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Pole Owner and Attacher Collaboration on Broadband Deployments

Explore how pole owners and attachers can collaborate more effectively during large-scale broadband deployments. This course examines the role of pole attachment agreements in supporting responsible deployment while addressing compliance, costs, processes, liability, and landowner concerns.
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  • Instructor
    Tom Magee
  • Level
    Beginner
  • Study time
    ~ 30 min
  • Video time
    20 min
  • Lessons
    5

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About This Course
Unprecedented broadband funding and accelerated deployment timelines are creating new challenges for both pole owners and attachers. Contractor shortages, inexperienced market participants, and large volumes of attachment activity can place significant pressure on existing processes and increase the importance of clear responsibilities and effective collaboration.

In this course, you'll explore how pole attachment agreements can help establish expectations and manage the relationship between pole owners and attachers. Topics include contract compliance, unauthorized attachments, safety violations, pole replacements and transfers, cost recovery, make-ready construction, attachment processes, liability protections, and landowner concerns.

You'll also examine opportunities to improve deployment processes, including make-ready estimates, installation deadlines, post-installation inspections, streamlined procedures, indemnities, insurance, easements, and other measures that can support responsible broadband deployment.
Target Audience
  • Utility and pole owner professionals
  • Broadband providers and pole attachers
  • Telecommunications professionals
  • Utility legal and regulatory professionals
  • Engineering and operations personnel involved in pole attachments
  • Professionals responsible for broadband deployment, make-ready work, or pole attachment agreements
Prerequisites
  • There are no formal prerequisites for this course. A basic understanding of utility infrastructure, broadband deployment, or pole attachment processes may be helpful.
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What you´ll learn

  • Describe the challenges created by increased broadband funding and accelerated pole attachment activity.
  • Explain how pole attachment agreements support collaboration between pole owners and attachers.
  • Identify common contract compliance issues related to pole attachments.
  • Recognize key cost recovery considerations associated with surveys, engineering, make-ready construction, and other attachment activities.
  • Describe process improvements that can support timely and responsible broadband deployments.
  • Identify key liability protections and landowner considerations associated with pole attachments.

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Your Instructor

Thomas B. Magee

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Washington, DC

About the instructor

Thomas (Tom) Magee advises investor-owned electric utilities, electric cooperatives, and municipalities on regulatory, transactional, and litigation issues regarding pole attachments, utility telecommunications, utility broadband, and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensing of private wireless telecommunications services.

Tom has drafted and negotiated hundreds of pole attachment, joint use, and conduit access agreements for his utility clients, and resolved countless pole attachment disputes affecting make-ready costs, safety violations, unauthorized attachments, annual rental rates, and other terms and conditions of access. Electric utility pole owners, including investor-owned utilities, electric cooperatives, and municipal utilities, retain Tom to provide regulatory advice, negotiate agreements, calculate rental rates, resolve disputes, and litigate before federal and state courts, the FCC, and state public service commissions. In addition, Tom advocates vigorously for utility clients in state and federal pole attachment rulemaking and legislative proceedings.

Tom is a frequent speaker on pole attachment and joint use issues at utility conferences nationwide, including those sponsored by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI), National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), Utilities Technology Council (UTC), Western Energy Institute (WEI), Southeastern Electric Exchange (SEE), and many others.

In addition to his work at the firm, Tom provides pro bono legal assistance to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Legal Counsel for the Elderly program.
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