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FCC Wireless Bureau extended deadline for PCIA and Industrial Tel...

FCC Wireless Bureau extended deadline for PCIA and Industrial Telecommunications Assn. (ITA) to meet mandatory electronic filing deadline for Land Mobile Phase 1 applications. New deadline for universal licensing system requirement is July 25. Bureau also granted additional time…

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for “unified dismissal” policy for all Phase One services, with new deadline of July 25. PCIA and ITA had told FCC they faced several obstacles to completing conversion to electronic filing, including problems with electronic batch filing. In letter this month to PCIA and ITA, bureau said they had met “good cause” standard to grant waiver. Bureau cited extent to which lack of waiver could bar groups from filing applications and potentially put at risk timely processing of Phase 1 Land Mobile Radio Service applications. PCIA and ITA also had asked that unified dismissal policy date be extended because problems with same electronic filing system led to returns of significant number of applications they had filed.