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The Canadian National Railway Company (CNRC) agreed to...

The Canadian National Railway Company (CNRC) agreed to pay a $5.25 million civil penalty to settle the FCC Enforcement Bureau’s investigation into the company’s purchase and use of hundreds of wireless radio facilities in the U.S. without prior FCC approval,…

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the FCC said Thursday. Some of the CNRC’s radio operations had been ongoing since 1990 under CNRC’s predecessors, more than two decades before the company disclosed the violations, the FCC said. “Today’s action sends a clear and strong message to the railroad industry, as well as other industries that rely on wireless technology, that they will face very serious consequences when they fail to comply with the Commission’s Rules,” Enforcement Bureau Chief Travis LeBlanc said in a news release (http://bit.ly/1pcfIRQ).