RWA Meets with O'Rielly Aide on Bresnan Waiver; T-Mobile Counters Arguments
The Rural Wireless Association met with an aide to Commissioner Mike O'Rielly on its request that the FCC review a December Wireless Bureau waiver of 700 MHz buildout rules for Bresnan Communications (see 1612210038). Bresnan plans to assign the three…
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licenses, covering parts of Montana and Wyoming, to T-Mobile. “RWA discussed the history of the rulemaking proceeding that resulted in the adoption of the 700 MHz buildout requirements and the Commission’s intent that such requirements achieve its goal of preventing the warehousing of 700 MHz spectrum,” the association said in a filing posted Monday in docket 16-319. T-Mobile, meanwhile, reported on meetings with aides to all three commissioners, at which it asked the FCC to reject RWA’s application for review as being without merit. “As the Commission’s records reflect, T-Mobile has consummated the underlying transaction in this proceeding,” T-Mobile said in a filing. “Finality is therefore critical because T-Mobile has already begun to expend significant resources to meet the aggressive performance requirements established by the Bureau, delivering much needed competition for wireless services to rural areas in Montana.”