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FCC Won't Extend Deadline on Shortwave Modernization Coalition Petition Replies

The FCC Wireless Bureau rejected a request by the Shortwave Modernization Coalition (see 2308070038) asking for 15 more days to file reply comments on its petition asking the agency to launch a rulemaking to amend its eligibility and technical rules…

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for industrial/business pool licensees to authorize licensed use of frequencies above 2 MHz and below 25 MHz for fixed, long-distance, non-voice communications (see 2307270035). The group asked the FCC to delay the deadline to Sept. 1 from Aug. 17. As the coalition acknowledges, "interested parties will have the opportunity to fully participate in the proceeding if the Commission issues a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking," the bureau said Friday.