Official:Granting permission to Cogent Communications, Inc., its successors and assigns to construct, maintain, operate, replace and remove telecommunications service connections and fiber cables in and under the public rights-of-way and City streets from existing legally constructed underground telecommunication lines to specific properties and within new conduit or within existing conduit of other entities holding a grant pursuant to other City ordinance; all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Clarke
Introduced: December 5, 2002
Signed: March 6, 2003
: Committee on Streets and Services
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This bill allows Cogent Communications to lay down fiber cables and telecommunication lines in Philadelphia's public rights-of-way for specific properties, subject to property owner consent.
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