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Planners Influence Telecommunications

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Jeff Fortin
6 February 2004 - 2:00pm

A regional planning agency expands its authority to telecommunications.

"The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission wants to expand its authority to telecommunications and influence where cellular phone towers and the fiber-optic lines carrying Internet and e-mail should be located. If the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission adopts a telecommunications plan, the agency would recommend locations for the towers and how to extend high-speed data and video transmission and Internet access, known as broadband services, to all municipalities and businesses in the region."

Full Story: Planners seek role in telecommunications
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 3, 2004
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