WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week dismissed a long-standing petition for special relief filed against Nextel Communications Inc. by the law firm of Brown & Schwaninger that accused Nextel of filing defective specialized mobile radio applications from Nov. 8, 1993, through Aug. 10, 1994.
The petition, filed more than six months after the comment period for the FCC’s CMRS Third Report & Order ended, was found to be “untimely on its face,” and the allegations contained within the petition are “themselves replete with factual errors or are based on incorrect or incomplete information,” the FCC wrote. The law firm had sufficient time to review the applications before they were granted but chose not to, the FCC pointed out.
“We also reject Brown’s suggestion that based on the meager anecdotal information contained in its petition, we should review every application filed by Nextel prior to the freeze and re-examine it for compliance with our rules,” the order read.
