The FCC Wireless Bureau halted its informal 180-day shot clock on...
The FCC Wireless Bureau halted its informal 180-day shot clock on the review of an agreement by General Communication Inc. and Alaska Communications to share spectrum and form the Alaska Wireless Network (AWN), a limited liability company that would hold…
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and operate both companies’ wireless facilities. The bureau said in a Thursday letter it had stopped the clock as of Oct. 25, which was day 64 of the review (http://xrl.us/bnytxi). The letter said the bureau had asked for additional information from both companies Oct. 11 with a due date of Oct. 25. “We appreciate your efforts to respond to these Information and Document Requests,” said the letter, signed by Bureau Chief Ruth Milkman. “As of the date of this letter, however, we have received no narrative or data responses from either Applicant and incomplete document production from each of GCI and ACS. Furthermore, at an ex parte meeting between Commission staff and counsel for GCI and ACS on October 15, 2012, we requested the submission of further legal analysis supporting your Petition for Declaratory Ruling, which you have characterized as a ‘necessary prerequisite’ to consummation of the transaction contemplated by the Applications. To date, we have not received such supporting legal analysis."