[VoiceOps] AT&T Right of Ways

[Paul Timmins]

As far as I know, most of the time you're going to need contractors 
certified to work in AT&T's ducts and manholes anyway (or people with 
requisite training to engineer the cabling for proper anchoring, wind 
load, and other things on aerial cable). Most of them are familiar with 
the ROW application process. If you don't have people who are qualified 
to do the engineering to demonstrate your cable won't unduly damage the 
poles, and has appropriate wind load, you've got a lot of work and 
education ahead of you unless you use a qualified contractor anyway.

If you want to do your own, my suggestion is to have someone else do 
your first set, and then you have a working copy of all the paperwork 
and the complex processes necessary to make it all work. In Michigan, 
for example, you also need permitting from the municipality even though 
you're using the existing utilities easement, which if you're a CLEC 
there's a process called the METRO act that you go through that gives 
you basically rubber stamped right of way access (you still need the 
pole attachments from the ILEC, or the duct assignments).

Additionally, if you're going aerial, you need to inspect the route to 
ensure AT&T owns the poles you need access to. They can only give you 
ROW on poles they own (I think joint use agreements count here too) but 
if they lease the poles from the power company you will have to work 
with them to get access as well.

-Paul

On 10/05/2011 04:17 PM, Carlos Alcantar wrote:
> Anyone familiar with doing all the paper work and design work for 
> using the right of ways in the AT&T states?  We have the row in our 
> ICA amendments and looking for the first time to possibly use them.
>
> *Carlos Alcantar*
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