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FCC Approves Broadband Data Collection Waiver for Verizon's 3G Network

The FCC approved a waiver Verizon sought asking to be exempted from filing data on its 3G network through Dec. 31 (see 2211220071), as part of a broadband data collection information filing due at the FCC in March. Verizon noted…

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it plans to shutter the 3G network just three days later, on Jan. 3. “We find that special circumstances warrant deviation from the Commission’s rule requiring Verizon to submit broadband availability and quality of service data for its 3G network and that granting the waiver is in the public interest,” said an order by the Wireless Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics in docket 19-195.