Hawaiian Telcom “willfully violated” conditions of the submarine cable landing...
Hawaiian Telcom “willfully violated” conditions of the submarine cable landing license for the Hawaii Interisland Cable System, failing on two occasions to obtain commission approval before transferring substantial control of its landing license, the Enforcement Bureau ruled Tuesday. It fined…
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the telco $16,000 (http://xrl.us/bmr9ie). The bureau said the first violation occurred when Verizon and Paradise MergerSub transferred control of the their cable landing license to HTCI, and the second when control of HTCI was transferred to new shareholders as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization. “The requirements to obtain prior approval for ownership changes involving cable landing licenses serve important public policies, notably the identification of any foreign ownership interests and the prevention of anti-competitive behavior that could result in competitive harms in the U.S. market,” the bureau wrote. Hawaiian Telcom had told the Enforcement Bureau that the license was “inadvertently omitted” from the FCC applications that were filed to effectuate those transfers. The bureau said this was an “admission” that the company had “failed to obtain prior Commission approval."