Mediation Fails in T-Mobile's Rooftop Antenna Fight With 3 Landlords

The “unsuccessful mediation” of the dispute between T-Mobile and three Bronx building landlords over the carrier’s access to rooftop wireless antennas (see 2212080004) sparked U.S. Magistrate Judge James Cott for Southern New York to schedule a Jan. 24 telephone conference to set a discovery schedule in the case, said his text-only order Friday (docket 1:22-cv-08369). The landlords who own the rooftop space that T-Mobile leases rebuffed the carrier's demand that they sign the New York Fire Department paperwork required for the company to access those rooftops and upgrade its wireless antenna facilities (see 2210270004).