The FCC should backtrack on its decision to address “substantial...
The FCC should backtrack on its decision to address “substantial service rules and policies” in its Aug. 9 wireless backhaul order (CD Aug 10 p3), the Wireless Communications Association said in a petition for reconsideration. “This issue was not raised…
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in the Commission’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for this proceeding, and thus the Commission’s consideration of the issue in the Memorandum Opinion and Order violates the notice-and-comment requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act,” WCA said in the petition (http://xrl.us/bmhovc). While the National Spectrum Management Association raised the issue as part of the wireless backhaul proceeding, the rules are already being examined in the commission’s license renewal proceeding, WCA said. The rules should be addressed as part of that proceeding “rather than on a piecemeal basis in other proceedings with a much narrower scope,” WCA said.