FCC Upholds AT&T 700 MHz License in Alaska Over RWA Objections
The FCC denied the Rural Wireless Association’s challenge of a January waiver by the Wireless Bureau, giving AT&T extra time to build out facilities offering wireless service using 700 MHz in the cellular market area serving the Wade Hampton, Alaska,…
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market. Absent the waiver, AT&T would have had to serve 35 percent of the geographic area covered by the license by Dec. 13, 2016, or have its end-of-license term and related 70 percent geographic-area construction requirement accelerated by two years, to June 13, 2017. Commissioners affirmed the finding that “strict application of Section 27.14(g)(1) here would frustrate the rule’s underlying purpose and that grant of the conditional waiver will serve the public interest, including by facilitating the introduction of wireless broadband services in [the market], all of which is rural area in the interior and northern reaches of Alaska,” the order said.