FCC to Start Processing T-Band Applications
The FCC said it will lift the T-band freeze after President Donald Trump signed into law (see 2012280052) the FY 2021 appropriations and COVID-19 aid omnibus bill, which includes a repeal of the mandate that the FCC auction the spectrum.…
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“Now that the Commission is no longer required to implement the T-Band Mandate, the rationale for the suspensions no longer exists,” said Tuesday's order by the Wireless and Public Safety bureaus. Within 30 days, bureaus will resume processing such applications for license renewals and “process all other pending T-Band applications, but dismiss without prejudice any pending applications that include a request for waiver of the Suspension Notice,” the order said.