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The FCC Wireless Bureau granted a waiver to Marathon Petroleum...

The FCC Wireless Bureau granted a waiver to Marathon Petroleum Co. from a 2004 freeze prohibiting applications for new authorizations in the 900 MHz Business Industrial Land Transportation (B/ILT) band. Marathon seeks to use a B/ILT station at the Catlettsburg…

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refinery in northeastern Kentucky. In 2004, the bureau “instituted a freeze on applications for new 900 MHz B/ILT authorizations because it feared that the exceptionally large number of applications it had received could compromise its ability to accommodate displaced systems during the 800 MHz band reconfiguration process designed to resolve interference to public safety communications,” the bureau’s new order said. The bureau said that “it would continue to accept applications for license modification and would entertain requests for waiver of the 900 MHz application freeze.”