The FCC Wireless Bureau rejected a move by Metropolitan Area Networks...
The FCC Wireless Bureau rejected a move by Metropolitan Area Networks Inc. to get the agency to reinstate 2,455 Part 101 microwave industrial/business pool licenses. Requests for more time to meet buildout requirements for the licenses “were filed without the…
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requisite filing fees, and while MAN sought a waiver of the filing fees, it did not pay the fees in advance as required by our rules,” the order said (http://xrl.us/bm3bhn). All of the licenses expired March 3, when the company missed a deadline to build out its network as required by commission rules, the order said. MAN’s business plan is built around providing backhaul service to white-spaces devices designed to operate in the unused portion of the TV broadcast band. “We believe that by obtaining these licenses before the rules for TV white space devices were finalized, MAN made a voluntary business decision to assume the risk that the rules would not be finalized prior to the end of the 18 month construction period,” the bureau said.