FiberTower Pulled Back From Near Death, Fletcher Heald Lawyer Says
FiberTower could come back from near death as a result of a decision last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, said broadcast lawyer Harry Cole of Fletcher Heald in a blog post. The court last…
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week vacated an FCC order canceling 42 of 689 licenses held by the wireless backhaul company, but told the FCC to revisit a request for an extension on the build out requirements of the other licenses as well (see 1504030042). “If you took the long odds and bet against the FCC in FiberTower’s last gasp effort to keep its 689 licenses alive, lucky you!” Cole wrote. “FiberTower’s 689 licenses appear to live on. The likelihood that the FCC will eventually relent and leave them all in place is impossible to gauge at this point, but at least FiberTower’s prospects are better now than they were before the Court’s opinion.”