The FCC should “clarify” the proposed buildout obligations Verizon faces, the...
The FCC should “clarify” the proposed buildout obligations Verizon faces, the American Petroleum Institute said in response to a public notice on an application by Verizon Wireless to buy Small Ventures’ 700 MHz C block license in the Gulf of…
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Mexico. The two asked the FCC for a waiver specifying that Verizon can meet the requirement by providing coverage and offering service to 40 percent of the oil and gas “drilling platforms” in the license area in active service as of June 13, and 75 percent as of the end of the license term, for both the shore-side and off-shore licenses, API said. “API believes that these conditions on the whole are reasonable to justify grant of the Applicants’ waiver request as long as the Commission more precisely defines the types of offshore structures that Verizon will be able to consider as a proxy for population to meet its build-out obligations,” API said (http://xrl.us/bobzxt). “The Applicants propose to use ‘drilling platforms’ as that proxy, however, drilling platforms are a very narrow subset of the total number of offshore platforms that have communications requirements. The term ‘drilling platform’ excludes offshore structures such as production, manifold, compression, pumping and valving platforms."