The record
Alabama
AlabamaAL
Not certified under Section 224(c)Record dated August 3, 2026
- Cooperative poles
- Narrow parity only, under Ala. Code 37-16-4(c), and only where the provider offers its own broadband. TVA distributor cooperatives are excluded
- Municipal poles
- The same narrow parity duty reaches non-TVA municipal providers that offer broadband. Otherwise contract and ordinance only
- Rate standard
- Parity only. The owner must apply the same rate methodology and access terms it uses for its own broadband. No formula and no cap
- Where a dispute goes
- No state agency forum for cooperative or municipal poles, so court and contract. Investor owned disputes go to the FCC
- Confidence
- High confidence on non-certification, the parity statute and its TVA distributor exclusion, and the no state forum finding; Provisional on the investor owned exclusion scope and the private enforcement path
AuthoritiesAla. Code 37-16-4(c)Ala. Code 37-16-3
Read the chip above as one fact and no more: whether Alabama has certified under Section 224(c) that it regulates pole attachments itself. It does not settle your pole. Cooperative and municipal poles sit outside federal jurisdiction whether or not a state has certified, so the two owner class lines are the ones that answer the question for the invoice in front of you.
This record is worked from the statute and the order that made it rather than from a summary of one. The confidence line is tied to its source: where a conclusion rests on weaker ground the record says so, because a hedge you can see is what makes the confident answers worth believing. The method is set out in how PoleProof researches and verifies, and how a cleared rule enters an audit is on the methodology page.
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