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Hotel Company Agrees to Pay Fine for Acquiring Wireless Licenses Without FCC OK

Atrium Hospitality agreed to pay a $35,000 fine and implement a compliance plan after acquiring 25 wireless licenses without FCC approval. In 2018, the Alpharetta, Georgia-based company acquired hotels from JQH Entities, which had filed for bankruptcy, as part of…

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a legal settlement, which included 25 private land mobile licenses. In 2019, Atrium filed several wireless license assignment applications, notifying the Wireless Bureau “that it had acquired wireless licenses without the necessary prior Commission approval,” said a Thursday order by the Enforcement Bureau. The Enforcement Bureau said the consent decree agreed to by Atrium ends an FCC investigation.