Major wireless carriers reached agreement with FiberTower for the continued...
Major wireless carriers reached agreement with FiberTower for the continued operation of FiberTower’s network through April 30, AT&T said in a filing at the FCC posted Tuesday (http://xrl.us/bn3q6c). The agreement was filed with the Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District…
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of Texas, which is hearing FiberTower’s petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Earlier, carriers warned of problems if FiberTower cuts off wireless and fiber backhaul services to the carriers in 12 states and the District of Columbia on Dec. 9, as proposed in a November filing at the FCC (http://xrl.us/bn3q36). AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Nextel, MetroPCS and Leap/Cricket all had representatives at a meeting on the issue with FCC staff. “The Carriers rely on FiberTower to provide critical backhaul services to thousands of sites, which the Carriers use to provide wireless service to millions of customers, including government agencies and public safety entities,” they said in a filing on the meeting (http://xrl.us/bn3q4a). FiberTower notified the FCC it was terminating service but said it didn’t believe the decommissioning “is subject to the discontinuance procedures applicable to interstate common carriers set forth in” the Communications Act. But FiberTower said it notified the FCC “out of an abundance of caution.”