Brendan Carr, one of the Federal Communications Commission’s five voting members, visited Central High School and Shentel headquarters Tuesday to discuss the merits of slashing red tape.
Carr arrived just a week before a critical vote in the Virginia Assembly. Shentel executives, along with other businesses and municipalities, have been working for nearly two years to get a bill through the state legislature that would make it easier for telecommunications companies to launch infrastructure projects in the commonwealth.
The bill would remove regulatory power from municipal governments, limiting the grounds on which local bodies could deny a project, and would require officials to provide feedback on a rejected application, among other measures.
