FCC Wireless Bureau denied petitions for reconsideration filed by...
FCC Wireless Bureau denied petitions for reconsideration filed by Alliance for Radio Competition (ARC) and Hugh Taylor on assignment of 900 MHz licenses from Geotek. Last Jan., bureau granted applications for Geotek, which had filed for bankruptcy, to assign…
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licenses to creditors and to assign from creditors to FCI 900, subsidiary of Nextel, licenses not covered by 1995 agreement of Nextel, Motorola, Dept. of Justice. (That consent decree barred Nextel from acquiring 900 MHz licenses in 15 markets.) Bureau also at time accepted FCI request to withdraw applications to assign from creditors to FCI licenses in markets covered by consent decree. ARC had argued that assigning licenses to FCI 900 would decrease competition in dispatch market. Taylor had contended Geotek wasn’t qualified to hold FCC licenses. Bureau concluded that neither ARC nor Taylor had raised new arguments or showed material errors in how decision was made. Order released Tues. reiterated FCC stance that original decision wouldn’t cause competitive harms in affected wireless voice markets.