FCC Must Hold AT&T Accountable on Alaska Buildout Requirements, RWA Says
The Rural Wireless Association said the FCC should investigate why AT&T didn’t file required coverage data for a 700 MHz license in the cellular market area serving the Wade Hampton, Alaska, market. In March, the FCC rejected an RWA challenge…
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of a January waiver for the license (see 1803050046). One of the requirements in the waiver was that AT&T meet a 70 percent geographic-area construction requirement by June 13, 2017. RWA said AT&T recently filed data at the FCC “reflecting coverage existing as of the date of that filing instead of reflecting the coverage existing 10 months earlier.” Regardless of why AT&T offered data as of the wrong date, “its failure to comply with the Commission’s directive is unacceptable and the Commission must take immediate action to require AT&T to comply with the requirement to submit coverage information as of June 13, 2017 or declare that the waiver conditions have not been met,” RWA said in docket 16-335. AT&T didn't comment.