The New York Court of Appeals handed a victory to the state’s municipalities in a decision Thursday that found certain equipment owned by telecommunications companies is taxable under the state’s real property tax law, rejecting arguments from T-Mobile.

The court, in an opinion from Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, unanimously affirmed a decision by the Appellate Division, Second Department that will compel T-Mobile to pay property taxes on a series of large cellular data transmission installations in the city of Mount Vernon, though the decision has wide-ranging implications for similar arrangements in municipalities statewide.

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