The FCC Wireline Bureau denied a petition by the Wireless...
The FCC Wireline Bureau denied a petition by the Wireless Internet Service Providers Association to rescind its public notice seeking comment on a list of unserved census blocks in price cap territories based on the National Broadband Map (http://xrl.us/bob64i). In…
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an order Wednesday, the bureau said WISPA’s petition was not ripe for decision, because the public notice is not a final action. “If and when the Commission uses the list as part of a final action, WISPA may request reconsideration of that final action; however, it may not seek reconsideration of the issuance of a Public Notice seeking comment,” the bureau said. The bureau also denied WISPA’s request to extend the deadline for filing comments until after the commission has adopted final rules in the matter. WISPA argued it would be “prudent to wait,” but the association “has failed to persuade us,” the bureau wrote. “Waiting until final rules are adopted to establish a comment cycle to update the most recent map available at that time would frustrate this goal, as the Commission sought to expedite the process of generating a finalized list of unserved census blocks,” it said.