The Wireless Communications Assn. and a group of its members warn...

modified the business plans of BRS operators would be harmed, as would their ability to continue to add customers as this transition gets under way. The BRS docket had pitted WCA and its members against CTIA and wireless carriers, particularly Verizon Wireless, which has been the most aggressive in its arguments. Verizon Wireless said the transition rules should “not be an avenue for incumbent licensees to use the band-clearing process to gain a windfall profit or to fund their entry into new business ventures.” CTIA called for a 15-year sunset date for BRS relocation. Sioux Valley Wireless, a BRS operator in S.D. with 2,300 wireless broadband customers, told the FCC if the Commission doesn’t get relocation rules right it would harm Sioux Valley’s ability to continue to serve its customers. Comr. Adelstein is from S.D. Sioux Valley charged that mobile operators are lobbying for a competitive advantage through “outdated relocation procedures that serve their own needs exclusively, with no regard for their impact on the broadband service” the company already offers. But the WCA relocation plan would “ensure that we will not be forced to bear the substantial cost of our own involuntary relocation, and that the relocation process will not otherwise cause irreversible damage to our services.”