Set to become effective on January 14, 2019, the Federal Communications Commission’s new wireless preemption Order has states, localities, and publicly-owned utilities rightly alarmed about encroachment on local authority and about forced federal requirements that put at risk the primary purpose of many public assets. In short, the FCC has preempted state and local authority and mandated that wireless companies shall have low-cost, streamlined access to state- and locally-owned public property to mount small cell facilities. To learn more some strategies and tactics that you may want to consider to protect your assets and their critical missions, subject to the guidance of your legal counsel, click here.