Expert Testimony

CityScape can provide governments with expert witness testimony to assist in defending or justifying decisions relating to antenna tower siting concerns. Our professional engineering and telecommunications legal experts can assist at zoning hearings and council meetings. Our engineers have more than 70 years experience in RF system design and analysis for the wireless telecommunications industry and can provide independent, accurate testimony on engineering subjects. Additionally CityScape can provide independent expertise to any community forum where citizen concerns may need to be addressed.

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CityScape can market all publicly owned towers, water tanks, rooftops and public land sites to the wireless providers as potential site locations for their wireless infrastructure via our electronic database, our sales team and other strategic marketing methods.  CityScape will determine the best and highest value of the public properties; negotiate the lease business terms and design the facility for projected growth, thereby assuring maximum co-location or combining opportunities.  CityScape will then continue as the lease administrator and the leasing of billing cycles.

CityScape has more years of experience in design and management of multi-use telecommunications facilities than most other companies that represent municipalities. Put that to work for your community and take advantage of the same people that created the nation’s most active and complex multi-use telecommunications facility. This expertise in the administration of multi-use facilities can enhance the development of a community’s telecommunications infrastructure and realize the maximum possible revenue anywhere.. CityScape provides these services in a consultant capacity, or can actively manage and act on behalf of the local government to: design facilities for projected growth; determine property values; negotiation of leases and rental rates; continue to assure compliance with applicable guidelines and laws; engineering assessment of sites to assure compatibility of multiple users therefore assuring the potential of maximum co-location, and most of all CityScape will assure your community of newly developing technologies that will allow even greater use of single locations.

Expert Advice

Our staff is available and qualified to testify at Public hearings on items related to wireless telecommunication issues.  Important in a CityScape evaluation of an ordinance or a telecommunications facility is our expertise and background in both engineering and legal disciplines.  Our specialized knowledge of the wireless industry will help the community better understand the technical and legal options relating to wireless siting decisions.  To prevent either a real or perceived conflict of interest with the private sector, CityScape only provides telecommunication related services to government agencies.  CityScape does not own any towers, nor are we paid by wireless carriers to find facilities for their deployment.  This allows CityScape the opportunity to provide independent and defensible legal and technical advice based on the merits of the materials provided by the industry to our clients.

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Online Resources

CityScape develops a comprehensive plan to provide wireless and wired master planning for your community including a master wireless grid for public and private deployment patters services, as well as coordination of new telecommunications entities which are competing for access to your community's infrastructure ( including Wireless Facilities, Right of Ways, Alternative Local Exchange Carriers and Open Video Systems. )

By taking a proactive approach to the coming 21st century telecommunications revolution, your local government can determine how and where the telecommunications infrastructure will occur, rather than reacting to demands from multiple providers.  CityScape staff will make available it's vast technical resources and expertise to your community for all of it's telecommunications and related issues.

Government is faced with not only cellular issues, but the requirement to deal with many new communications providers, for instance:

• CLEC:  Competitive Local Exchange Carrier ( desires to provide local telephone service in your city and county )
• WLL:  Wireless Local Loop ( desires to deploy cooper alternative using your rights-of-way )
• MMDS:  Multi-Point Microwave Distribution Service ( desires to deploy high-speed data service )
• OVS:  Open Video Systems ( alternative to cable television service )

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