Paging Provider Agrees to Pay $15K to Settle Foreign-Ownership Investigation
United Wireless Holdings agreed to pay $15,000 to settle an FCC investigation of unapproved international ownership changes, the Enforcement Bureau said Friday. On Sept. 20, 2021, the company filed a petition for declaratory ruling, reporting several ownership changes and seeking…
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retroactive approval for transactions that occurred after the 2009 grant of the prior approval of 100% ownership of United by Andrew Fitton, a U.K. citizen, the bureau said. The International Bureau agreed to the changes last year but warned of potential enforcement actions. “United Wireless intends to assign its remaining licenses to an FCC-qualified, unaffiliated third party or to cancel those licenses in connection with the winding down” of the company’s “paging activities,” the order said: “United Wireless expects these licensing actions to be initiated within the next few months and in no event later than the end of 2023.”