How will the VTA help reduce other costs for mobile service providers?
After site acquisition and tower construction costs, the costs to connect the cell sites to the telecommunications and data networks (known as backhaul costs) are the most significant for service providers. To help these providers reduce these costs, the VTA is able to offer mobile service providers favorable rates for backhaul for the short term under an existing state contract. For the longer term the VTA will offer even lower backhaul rates via a new proposed state-wide fiber backbone network.
