FCC Bureau Approves 700 MHz Waiver for Puerto Rico
The FCC Public Safety Bureau approved a waiver, signing off on Puerto Rico’s late filing of its “substantial service” showing for its license for 700 MHz state channels under call sign WPTZ852. Rules require state channels to certify they were…
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providing or prepared to provide substantial service to one-third of their population or territory by June 13, 2014, the order said. The commonwealth missed that deadline and filed two waiver requests, the bureau said. “Finally, on May 19, 2016,” Puerto Rico filed the required showing, the bureau said. “Puerto Rico states that its interim substantial service filing was late because the original employee assigned to the project no longer works for the Commonwealth so it had to contract a ‘new person’ to ‘finish the supervision of this project.’” Puerto Rico also said its radio system provides service to more than 33 percent of its population and territory and was built before the original 2014 deadline, the bureau said: Granting the waiver would serve the public interest.