The Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI) oversees approval of the use of streets to set up cell phone and internet access throughout the city.

Approved companies can set up and operate mobile telecommunications equipment on:

• Street light poles
• Traffic light poles
• Certain privately-owned wooden utility poles

This equipment provides wireless services, such as cell phone reception and wireless broadband.

Each pole set up consists of:

• A box containing a provider's radio equipment
• An antenna atop the pole

There can only be one installation on a pole.

The equipment must be painted to match the color of the pole. 

OTI approved these companies to set up and maintain equipment for their own private networks: 

• Crown Castle Solutions, LLC
• Crown Castle NG East, LLC
• Crown Castle Fiber, LLC
• CSC Wireless, LLC
• ExteNet Systems, Inc.
• Mobilitie, LLC
• New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC
• New York SMSA Limited Partnership
• Transit Wireless, LLC
• ZenFi Networks, LLC