Title
Telecommunications Services and Interstate Telecommunications Services License with AT&T Corp (Ordinance S-44826)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to execute a nonexclusive, revocable license with AT&T Corp to construct, install, operate, maintain, and use the Public Highways in the City in order to provide telecommunications services and interstate telecommunications services in, under, over, and across public rights-of-way in the City of Phoenix subject to the terms and conditions contained in the license and Phoenix City Code. Also request that the Licensee sign the license within 60 days of Council action or this authorization will expire. There is no cost to the City for this license.
Report
Summary
The license will be for a period of five years, contain appropriate insurance and indemnification provisions, require a performance bond and a security fund, provide for terms of transfer and revocation, and provide for compensation for the commercial use of public rights-of-way while permitting the City to manage the rights-of-way.
Contract Term
The request is for a five-year renewal of an existing five-year Telecommunications Services and Interstate Telecommunications Services License that was last granted on July 31, 2013 (City Contract 136502-0).
Financial Impact
There is no cost to the City. Licensee will pay an annual fee based on a formula using linear footage and the Consumer Price Index.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Mario Paniagua and the Street Transportation Department.