FCC Wireless Bureau Grants PST Digital Filing Deadline Waiver
The FCC Wireless Bureau granted PST Digital's request for a waiver of the deadline for its application to renew a license for one of its broadband PCS stations, said an order released Wednesday. It also ordered that the application PST…
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filed late on Sept. 1 be processed in accordance with the commission's rules. The filing deadline was June 23, but PST Digital didn't submit its application correctly and the license expired, the order said. PST requested permission to operate under special temporary authority, which was granted and expires Jan. 11, the bureau said. The bureau acknowledged that denial of the renewal application and terminating the license would be "too harsh a result in proportion to the nature of the violation." It said the agency doesn't routinely grant such waivers, but "we have repeatedly held that the filing of a timely, but defective, renewal application warrants a waiver to permit the late filing of a subsequent renewal application where the licensee acted in good faith and moved promptly to file a proper renewal application after learning that the original attempt fell short."