Wireless Council Asks FCC to Act on 2020 Pro Forma Petition
The National Wireless Communications Council (NWCC) urged the FCC to act on a June 2020 petition by CTIA and USTelecom seeking regulatory relief on pro forma filings (see 2006050039). NWCC considers this a “common-sense proposal that will reduce regulatory burdens…
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on FCC staff and licensees while complying fully with the directives of the Communications Act,” said a Thursday filing in docket 20-186. Recent analysis by AT&T showed “only a very small fraction” of pro forma assignments or transfers appear to involve major carriers, NWCC said: “The great majority were filed by licensees of private systems, many of them NWCC constituents, that do not provide a commercial communications service to the public, are not subject to foreign ownership limitations, and are not reviewed for purposes of avoiding undue concentration in the telecommunications arena.”