AT&T to Pay $450,000 After Reporting Problems With Many Fixed Licenses
AT&T agreed to pay $450,000 and put in place a compliance plan to settle an FCC investigation of whether it operated fixed wireless stations without authorization or without filing required license modification notices. The carrier found “minor discrepancies” between FCC…
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records and the actual operating parameters of some recently acquired licenses, a company spokesman said. “AT&T voluntarily disclosed these discrepancies to the FCC and made corrective filings. None of them had any impact on consumers or other carriers.” The FCC said AT&T reported discrepancies on a “large number of fixed microwave licenses” that it acquired between 2009 and 2011. The Enforcement Bureau initially proposed a $640,000 fine.