The FCC Wireless Bureau Monday approved a settlement resolving mutually...
The FCC Wireless Bureau Monday approved a settlement resolving mutually exclusive applications for 2.3 GHz Wireless Communications Service authorizations currently held or to be acquired by AT&T, and also dismissed all competing applications filed against AT&T’s current WCS authorizations. The…
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dispute over the licenses started in 2007 when the competing applications were filed, and “continued in earnest until May 2010, when the Commission commenced a rulemaking to adopt consistent requirements for the renewal of Wireless Radio Services licenses,” the order said (http://xrl.us/bnucga). “We have reviewed the Settlement Agreement and find that our approval will serve the public interest by reducing the uncertainty cast over the WCS band by the long-pending Competing Applications,” the bureau said. “Reducing that uncertainty will further the public interest by removing an obstacle to the significant capital investment needed to deploy valuable, next-generation broadband services to the American public in the WCS band."