CommScope Notifies FCC of CBRS Withdrawal
CommScope notified the FCC it’s suspending operations as a spectrum access system manager in the citizens broadband radio service band, effective April 1. “We will no longer be providing SAS services nor accepting CBSD [CBRS device] registrations,” said a notice…
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posted Monday in docket 15-319: “In addition, CommScope will securely transfer all currently registered CBSDs to other Commission-approved SAS administrators by April 1.” The company will retain records not pertaining to federal incumbents for five years, the notice said. CommScope was one of the original SAS providers, along with Google and Federated Wireless. CTIA noted in a report last year that CommScope had effectively abandoned the market earlier in the year. “While Commscope remained silent about its reasons one can reasonably surmise it was due to a lack of expected demand,” the report said: “Companies do not often abandon profitable lines of business.”