The FCC Wireless Bureau denied FiberTower’s requests for waiver for its 24...
The FCC Wireless Bureau denied FiberTower’s requests for waiver for its 24 GHz Digital Electronic Message Service and 39 GHz waiver extensions. The backhaul provider told the agency it needs the waivers to comply with a bankruptcy court agreement or…
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it will face an auction and dismantlement (CD Nov 7 p8). But the company “failed to demonstrate substantial service for the licenses in question,” the bureau said in a Wednesday order (http://xrl.us/bnyhxy). It denied the waiver requests and said FiberTower its licenses had terminated June 1. The order “does not affect any of the licenses that FiberTower uses currently to provide service to customers,” the bureau said. But FiberTower “put most of its 24 GHz and 39 GHz licenses at risk by making the business decision not to build them out,” the bureau said.