Community planners, elected officials, and members of communities

FACT: Almost 15 percent of American households are solely dependent on wireless phone service; they do not have traditional landline phones and the percentage is growing every month.1

FACT: As of December 2007, there were approximately 291,000 emergency 9-1-1 calls made on mobile phones in the United States every day.2

Community planners, elected officials, and members of communities across the country are invited to learn more about the work we do with our customers. Who are our customers? The companies that provide mobile phone service and wireless connectivity to more than 255 million people in the United States.

As a telecommunications service provider holding a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) or grant of authority from state regulators – ExteNet Systems’ works closely with cities, townships and communities across the country. Our DAS network installations are generally subject to Federal and state laws under which ExteNet Systems is entitled to install its facilities in public rights-of-way, subject only to reasonable, non-discriminatory local requirements and limitations. We are also entitled under Federal and/or state laws to attach our equipment to existing utility poles and other infrastructure such as conduits, again subject to limitations of the pole/conduit owners. ExteNet Systems provides facilities and services for transporting signals for use by companies with licensed radio frequency spectrum – we do not provide wireless services directly to mobile phone service subscribers.

DAS installations are nothing more than minimally sized antennas and boxes installed on poles and streetlights that are in rights-of-ways, with fiber optic cable attached aerially or underground. People are using mobile handsets instead of landline phones at home and work – so more DAS installations will be used by wireless service providers. As DAS becomes more familiar to jurisdictions’ planning staffs and local decision-makers, it is more and more clear that these installations do not require an intensive conditional use permit review.

Read about distributed antenna systems deployed by ExteNet Systems in several communities here.

Learn more about our regulatory status – and see the current list of more than 20 states where we have published tariffs and have regulatory approval here.

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1) U.S. Centers for Disease Control
2) CTIA, The Wireless Association

 

 

 

According to the Federal Communications Commission, use of landline phones declined by 20 million customers between 2001 and 2005. (February 2007 Trends in Telephone Service Survey)

As of April 2008, the percentage of American households that owns a mobile phone is 84 percent. (CTIA, The Wireless Association)

Since 2006, the total number of minutes used per month on wireless phones has exceeded the landline minutes used per month. (The Yankee Group)

Roughly half the emergency 911 calls made in the United States are initiated from a cell phone. (The National Emergency Number Association)