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.

To read about distributed antenna systems deployed by ExteNet Systems in several communities, click here.

To learn more about our regulatory status – and to see the current list of more than 20 states where we have published tariffs and have regulatory approvals, click here.

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