AT&T encouraged the FCC to take various steps to promote...
AT&T encouraged the FCC to take various steps to promote rollout of broadband in wireless communications service spectrum. The comments came in a meeting about WCS with agency staff. “There is near-universal recognition that much more spectrum needs to be…
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devoted to mobile broadband services, and the Commission is appropriately looking to underutilized WCS spectrum to help fill this gap,” the company said (http://xrl.us/bng62w). “The uncertainty created by the conditional renewal status of WCS licenses and the still-pending competitive applications for those licenses, however, is a major obstacle to that goal.” More than two years ago, the agency released a notice of proposed rulemaking “proposing, inter alia, to dismiss the competing applications and remove the cloud this regulatory uncertainty casts over the substantial investments that will be necessary to make full use of WCS spectrum for mobile broadband services,” the carrier said. It urged the FCC to: “promote its core broadband policies by (1) severing the issues relating to the WCS licenses from the other issues in WT Docket No. 10-112, (2) issuing a Report and Order that establishes an interim rule that governs WCS renewal applications and that precludes the filing of competing WCS applications, (3) dismissing pending competing WCS applications, and (4) granting unconditional renewal to current WCS licensees where appropriate."