Overview
The Telecommunications practice at Pullman & Comley offers a wide range of legal services to assist clients in responding to the opportunities and requirements of the telecommunications markets throughout the New England region and the country. This practice incorporates the firm’s extensive transactional and regulatory experience in wireless and wireline telecommunications to provide practical, focused results for our clients. Our attorneys deal with every aspect of telecommunications, including leasing, regulatory proceedings, setting of utility rates, siting and land use, interconnection, environmental law, real estate, taxation, business, project and operational finance and litigation.
Attorneys in this practice have extensive experience before the Federal Communications Commission, the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, the Connecticut Siting Council and the Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Cable, as well as similar agencies around the country. We also regularly practice before local zoning, wetlands, and land use agencies with respect to the siting of telecommunications towers and antennas as those agencies determine the balance between the impacts and public benefits of various projects.
Members of the Telecommunications practice represent clients in the siting of telecommunications towers for wireless providers, the leasing of land for towers, the leasing of space on towers, the siting of antennas on towers and on rooftops and the implementation of DAS systems. For wireline providers and customers, we have experience obtaining certificates of public convenience and necessity, negotiating interconnection agreements, negotiating end-user agreements, participating in pole attachment-related rulemaking proceedings, pursuing cost of service dockets at state public utility commissions and responding to complaints at both the local and federal level. Our attorneys also regularly provide guidance on telemarketing issues and responding to complaints involving do-not-call violations.
Experience
Representation of landowners in ground lease for tower development including negotiation and revenue sharing arrangement
Representation of building owners in rooftop lease for antennas including rooftop management issues for the siting of multiple carriers
Representation of telecommunications providers and trade associations before the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority on general regulatory matters
Representation of wireline and wireless telecommunications providers before Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine public utilities commissions on various pole attachments rulemaking proceedings
Representation of wireless telecommunications providers and municipalities before the Connecticut Siting Council on the placement of antennas on existing cell towers
Representation of national infrastructure developers before the Connecticut Siting Council on the approval of a new tower building in Connecticut
Representation of a telecommunications provider in a litigation matter involving a customer complaint relating to quality of service
Representation of wireless telecommunications providers in the leasing of tower space and rooftop space of antennas
