Wireless Bureau OKs Notification Waiver Sought by CTIA
The FCC Wireless Bureau approved a waiver CTIA had sought of the continuing clearinghouse notification obligations of advanced wireless service licensees. “For one, we find that compliance with the rules is impossible for licensees when no clearinghouse is operating,” the…
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bureau said in a Friday order in docket 00-258. “Accordingly, the only effect of these rules would be to prohibit AWS licensees from taking the actions that would trigger the notification requirement.” The rules have also largely served their purpose, the bureau said: this “Coupled with the unique circumstances that the Commission did not originally envision -- that there would be no clearinghouse in operation -- and the public interest benefit of continued deployment in these bands, justifies a waiver of the rules.”