FiberTower asked the FCC for an emergency stay of a...
FiberTower asked the FCC for an emergency stay of a Nov. 7 Wireless Bureau order saying the company had not met the substantial service requirements for 94 of its 24 GHz Digital Electronic Message Service licenses and 595 of its…
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39 GHz licenses and that these licenses automatically terminated June 1. FiberTower, which has filed for bankruptcy, has already announced plans to discontinue service by April 30. “The Bureau’s Order has caused a number of unique and unprecedented harms to the public interest that should be remedied by issuing a stay,” FiberTower said. “Because of the Bureau’s actions, FiberTower, which built one of the nation’s largest fixed wireless networks to help serve the burgeoning demand for mobile broadband service and offered competitive special access services nationwide, may no longer be able to conduct that business, to the detriment of its customers and the public.” Among the effects of the order if it is not stayed would be “removing the nation’s most active developer of viable fixed wireless equipment and services from the market,” reducing competition in the nation’s special access market and “materially disrupting service to the nation’s leading wireless operators and public safety entities,” FiberTower said.