Wireless Bureau Grants MCLM, Choctaw Reconsideration Petitions

commission’s Second Thursday doctrine that would have permitted the processing of an application to assign all of MCLM’s licenses to Choctaw as part of a bankruptcy reorganization plan. The FCC instead granted in part an alternative request by the parties that involved assigning some MCLM spectrum to the Southern California Regional Rail Authority and various electric, gas and oil companies. But the Wireless Bureau changed its mind in the order released Thursday. “Changed circumstances -- the discharge in bankruptcy of Donald DePriest, an alleged real-party-in-interest in MCLM -- arising after the adoption of the MO&O warrant reconsideration of the MO&O and support granting Second Thursday relief,” it said. “This decision also terminates the hearing as to MCLM’s basic qualifications, eliminates the need to address the merits of the other pending petitions for reconsideration of the MO&O, and paves the way for MCLM’s remaining licenses to be assigned to qualified third parties, with the proceeds benefitting innocent creditors of MCLM.” The FCC also denied an application filed by Warren Havens for review of a Wireless Bureau Mobility Division action denying other petitions for reconsideration of the initial grant of the automated maritime telecom system licenses to MCLM.