T-Mobile Wins Facility Modification Fight With San Francisco

T-Mobile‘s applications for permits to modify five existing wireless facilities in San Francisco are deemed granted after the city failed to act, the Northern District of California ruled.

The court based its ruling on the federal Spectrum Act, which requires state and local governments to approve “any eligible facilities request of an existing wireless tower or base station that does not substantially change the physical dimensions of such tower or base station,” Judge Jon S. Tigar of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Thursday.

The city waived its opposition to three of the ...