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FCC OKs 2.5 GHz Waivers for Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa

The FCC Wireless Bureau approved a waiver allowing the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians to receive licenses to use the 2.5 GHz band on two tracts of trust land in North Dakota. Trust lands were excluded from eligibility for…

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the licenses under FCC rules. “In this instance, we find that strictly applying the Tribal lands definition would be inconsistent with the Tribal Window’s purpose of providing wireless communications services in rural Tribal areas,” the bureau said Thursday.