Wireless Bureau Denies Petition Over Contested AMTS Spectrum
Challengers to Thomas Kurian's application to partition and disaggregate 219.5-220.0 MHz of automated maritime telecom system (ATMS) spectrum to freight railroad consortium PTC-220 didn't show why pending litigation in Nevada involving Kurian should preclude denying the application or why it…
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was a breach of the applicants' duty not to disclose that litigation in their application. That's according to an FCC Wireless Bureau order Monday denying a petition by Warren Havens and Polaris PNT Group against the application. The bureau granted a waiver of AMTS rules PTC-220 sought to facilitate use of the spectrum for positive train control and related rail safety systems.