Learn how GMA's Cable & Telecommunications Management Services can help your city with franchise fee audits, franchise management and cell tower lease negotiations.
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Greg Fender provides technical assistance to local governments on negotiating franchise and pole attachment agreements with companies that utilize a city’s right of way and facilities. He also assists cities in figuring out how they can maximize the revenue collected from companies that use their public right of way. For Greg, it’s important to make sure local governments are compensated the correct amount of money and that companies comply with local ordinances.
Many cities have worked with telecommunications companies that want to place equipment on water tank towers and cell towers on public rights of way. As these telecommunications companies increasingly compete for better wireless coverage, they have begun to rely more on specialty companies that are now starting to approach cities about placing “small cells” in the public rights of way.