The FCC Wireless Bureau granted a limited waiver of Section...
The FCC Wireless Bureau granted a limited waiver of Section 1.935 of the FCC’s rules to allow more discussions between companies with mutually exclusive applications to offer service in the Wireless Communications Service band. “Section 1.935 limits the consideration that…
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may be exchanged among parties to resolve mutually exclusive applications,” said a public notice (http://xrl.us/bnnh5p). “The Bureau finds that the public interest will be served by temporary waiver of this limitation to foster resolution of mutually exclusive (i.e., competing) applications for certain 2.3 GHz Wireless Communications Service licenses.” The competing renewal applications “have clouded the status of licenses” in the band, the bureau said. “The Bureau believes that a limited waiver of Section 1.935 will advance the public interest by helping eliminate the uncertainty that has encumbered these spectrum licenses. Moreover, a limited waiver of Section 1.935 will serve the public interest by enabling resolution of the competing renewal applications without the cost and delay attendant to potentially protracted litigation.” The commission’s goal is to “spur the significant investment needed to deploy valuable, next-generation broadband services to the American public in the affected spectrum,” the bureau said.