XPost: comp.mobile.android, sci.electronics.repair   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2017-03-26 23:17, Jeff Liebermann wrote:   
   > On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 21:17:01 +0200, "Carlos E. R."   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2017-03-26 08:09, Jeff Liebermann wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In the last 17 years, the ordinance has roughly doubled in size.   
   >>> Exemptions and exceptions are added regularly to deal with   
   >>> non-compliant technology and organizations.  Life blunders on.   
   >>>   
   >>> If adding a cell site in your neighborhood requires a tower ordinance,   
   >>> you have my sympathies.   
   >   
   >> I wonder why such things are not regulated from the highest level   
   >> possibly in any country. Seems absurd to my that anything smaller than a   
   >> state has to regulate towers.   
   >   
   > I'm not going to speculate why, but the various parts of cell tower   
   > installation are divided between Federal, State, and local authorities   
   > by areas of influence.  Anything that has to do with RF is owned by   
   > the FCC.  Anything that has to do with aviation hazards, is run by the   
   > FAA and managed by the FCC.  The FCC also deals with licenses,   
   > auctions, and protecting monopolies.  If there are local public   
   > utilities commissions involved, then those are run by the State.  Site   
   > selection, co-location, construction practices, aesthetics, compliance   
   > the local general plan, and taxing users, are handled by the local   
   > authorities (city and/or county).   
   >   
   > It might be possible to consolidate all these into some kind of   
   > national personal communications bureaucracy, which would run things   
   > at all levels.  To some extent, that's roughly what happened when the   
   > DHS (dept of homeland security) was established in 2001.  I believe   
   > that might be what you're suggesting.  Yes, it could be done, but do   
   > we really need yet another bureaucracy when the inefficient but   
   > tolerably effective existing tangle of overlapping agencies,   
   > departments, and boards are adequate?  Sometimes, they need a kick in   
   > the posterior, as with the FCC imposing a "shot clock" to get things   
   > moving, but mostly, things lurch and blunder forward without bloodshed   
   > or additional taxes.   
      
   I wasn't thinking only or specifically of the USA ;-)   
      
   --   
   Cheers,   
          Carlos E.R.   
      
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