Providers Reach Agreement With FCC on Alleged CBRS Violations
Shenandoah, UScellular and NorthWestern agreed to abide by a consent decree with the FCC, ending investigations into whether the carriers violated the four priority access license per market requirement of the agency’s citizens broadband radio service rules. Shenandoah agreed to…
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implement a compliance plan and either amend its long-form application “to remove all licenses that, if granted, would cause it to exceed the four-PAL aggregation limit in an identified market” or amend the form “to remove enough PALs in each identified market to avoid exceeding the four-PAL aggregation limit,” said a Friday notice: “Frequencies that would have been authorized for use with a PAL had Shenandoah or other similarly situated applicants not amended an application pursuant to the Consent Decree may be authorized for use by another eligible licensee with another PAL at a later date and, in the interim, remain immediately available for use pursuant to the applicable General Authorized Access (GAA) rules.” The notice was by the Office of Economics and Analytics and Wireless Bureau. The USCellular and NorthWestern agreements were similar.