FCC Commissioners Reject Emailed Appeal of 800 Rebanding Decision
FCC members rejected an appeal of a Public Safety Bureau order denying License Acquisitions’ attempts to rescind its election under the 800 MHz rebanding program to relocate to the enhanced specialized mobile radio portion of the band. The bureau rejected…
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a petition for reconsideration outright because it was filed via email, which is forbidden by rules. The agency said there were other reasons to reject it as well. “License Acquisitions failed to request permission to rescind this election for an unreasonably long period of time after the election was made -- it waited until 2017 before attempting to rescind the 12-year-old ESMR election made and reaffirmed by its predecessor in 2005 and 2006,” said an order Friday in docket 02-55. “On multiple occasions after acquiring the licenses in 2010 and prior to its 2017 rescission request, License Acquisitions represented to the Commission that it was fully prepared to construct an ESMR system and that it had acquired all non-frequency dependent equipment, tower leases, and property necessary to do so.”