May 18, 2018      5:00 PM

Senators accuse Austin of dragging its feet on telecom legislation

Chairman Hancock quips: “I think you work with whoever you want to work with…I think you don’t work with whoever you don’t want to work with.” Sen. Whitmire notes that Houston has managed to improve this infrastructure despite the fact that Hurricane Harvey rolled through last year

The City of Austin has approved only a couple of permits for the creation of a statewide 5G wireless network, a position met with some frustration from state lawmakers this week.

This next generation of connectivity, 10 times faster than current wireless service, is one that will help put autonomous cars on the road and flying taxis in the sky, we are told.

More pragmatically, lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1004 last session to outline the deployment of network nodes in the right-of-way of roadways and capping fees at a loss of up to $750 million to local cities.

By Kimberly Reeves

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