The Canton City Council is expected to vote Thursday on a telecommunications company’s request to let it run fiber optic cable in city rights-of-way for a “small cell” system intended to improve the performance of mobile networks.
The company, Crown Castle, says its equipment relieves wireless congestion by providing additional infrastructure. Its preliminary plan is to extend lines along Waleska and Main streets downtown and the area east of Northside Hospital-Cherokee and north of Riverstone Parkway (Ga. 140).
Crown Castle says in its proposal to Canton that small cell networks “typically are deployed in areas where macro sites (such as towers, monopoles and rooftop installations) cannot adequately serve and/or when siting new macro facilities may prove to be impractical.”
The company said it usually will attach its equipment to existing utility poles or streetlights but will use new poles when necessary, all in the public right-of-way; and that it has pole attachment agreements with Georgia Power and AT&T.
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