Havasupai Tribe Seeks FCC Action on Permanent EBS License
A Havasupai leader told FCC officials the tribe needs certainty on educational broadband service rules. Using an EBS license provided on special temporary authority, the tribe in partnership with MuralNet built an LTE network that brought “for the first time”…
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high-speed internet access to Supai, Arizona, “the most remote community in the continental” U.S., said a filing posted Monday in docket 18-120. The Havasupai are “eager to launch additional educational, health, criminal justice and economic programs to meet critical community needs -- but cannot do so until the FCC takes action on their permanent application for an EBS license, which has been pending since April 24, 2018,” it said. A tribal representative, the Water and Power Law Group, MuralNet, Voqal and Mobile Beacon attended. They met aides to Commissioners Mike O’Rielly, Jessica Rosenworcel and Geoffrey Starks and with Wireless Bureau staff.