An impending FCC order on pole attachments leaves some industry officials worried and nothers hopeful about attachment rates. Its purpose is "ensuring nondiscriminatory, just and nreasonable access to utility poles," the commission said when the May 20 meeting npreliminary agenda was released. "We need a regime that is essentially going to set pole nrates that are as low as possible, while still providing appropriate rental costs from pole nowners," said NCTA Executive Vice President James Assey. Cable companies attach lines to npoles at a rate lower than what telecom companies pay to attach their lines. NCTA, tw ntelecom and some other groups and telcos are urging the commission to decrease the telecom nrate to the cable rate or close to it.
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