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Wireless Communication Facilities (WiFi of WCF)

On December 12, 2005, the City Council approved changes to the Scottsdale City Code that allowed for the creation of a new type of encroachment permit for WiFi facilities.  

 

WiFi Fee Schedule (PDF / 39 kb / 1 pg)

Authority to Assess Fees - Council Report ( PDF / 477 kb / 9 pgs)

WiFi Fees - Council Report (PDF / 365 kb / 7 pgs)

City Code:  Wireless Communications

 

Related Definitions:

  • Wireless communications facility (WCF) means a facility for the transmission and/or reception of radio frequency signals, including over-the-air broadcasting signals, usually consisting of antennas, equipment cabinet, a support structure, and/or other transmission and reception devices. Exemption: ham radio, amateur radio facilities, commercial radio and television broadcasting towers, and point-topoint end-user facilities less than one (1) meter in diameter. S. R.C. Appendix B, Article III, Section 100.
  • Commercial mobile service means any mobile service (as defined in section 153 of this title) that is provided for profit and makes interconnected service available (A) to the public or (B) to such classes of eligible users as to be effectively available to a substantial portion of the public, as specified by regulation by the Commission. 47USC332(d).
  • Mobile service means a radio communication service carried on between mobile stations or receivers and land stations, and by mobile stations communicating among themselves, and includes (A) both one-way and two-way radio communication services, (B) a mobile service which provides a regularly interacting group of base, mobile, portable, and associated control and relay stations (whether licensed on an individual, cooperative, or multiple basis) for private one-way or two-way land mobile radio communications by eligible users over designated areas of operation, and (C) any service for which a license is required in a personal communications service established pursuant to the proceeding entitled. 47USC53