Viaero Seeks FCC Action on Year-Old Mobility Fund Waiver Request
Representatives of Viaero Wireless met with aides to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Commissioner Mignon Clyburn on a July 2016 waiver request of parts of Mobility Fund Phase I rules. The carrier reported then it had failed to meet network…
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coverage requirements in three census tracts in Colorado. The most recent filing, in docket 10-90, explains the problems the company cited in seeking a waiver. “We discussed performance impossibility in the subject Census Tracts, due to the inability of the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to grant access and related rights of way for Viaero to construct cell sites on federal lands,” Viaero said. “The difficulties in obtaining access were not apparent on the date Viaero participated in Mobility Fund Phase I, but became clear as the Forest Service decided to revise its master plan in 2014 and thereafter.”