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I don't have the answer, but I wonder if they are considered a utility and operate on utility easements. Then we have to look at the county and state, too.

On the other side, I've read they operate a considerable number of private installations, too. Even that is suspect, too, in that there is existing case law affirming that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in "the whole of their public movements."



They’re not utility. But you don’t have to be a utility to construct in the right-of-way.


Good point. Then, if the contract lapses, who is responsible for that infrastructure? Does flock have to tear it down?


Probably some legal question that won’t get answered until there is a strong pressure to do so.


No, because they have other customers.




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