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To: quidditch who wrote (5865)	1/29/2000 5:54:00 AM
From: Webster	Read Replies (4) of 13582

QCOM's request for their pioneer license..very very interesting. Comments would be appreciated. Thanks Web. QUALCOMM SEEKS UHF 60-69 LICENSE FOR `PIONEER's PREFERENCE' GRANT QUALCOMM, Inc., has asked the FCC to award it a broadband wireless license covering the Southeast from spectrum now used for UHF broadcast TV channels 60-69. QUALCOMM asked for the spectrum license to satisfy the agency's obligation to award the company a "pioneer's preference," as directed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The appeals court held last July that the FCC improperly denied QUALCOMM's request for a licensing pioneer's preference as a reward for QUALCOMM's development work on CDMA (code-division multiple-access) technology (TR, July 26, 1999). FCC officials weren't available this afternoon to comment on the QUALCOMM request, which came in the form of a "petition for declaratory ruling" in Wireless Telecommunications docket 99-168. In the petition, QUALCOMM recounted its seven-year quest for a pioneer's preference, which involved two trips to the appeals court to overturn FCC denials of a license grant. The defunct pioneer's preference program was established to spur development and deployment of advanced telecom systems by issuing spectrum licenses in return for innovative technology investments. The appeals court last July ordered the Commission "forthwith to grant a pioneer's preference to QUALCOMM and to take prompt action to identify suitable spectrum and award QUALCOMM the license for it." Now QUALCOMM is seeking the "D" block economic area grouping (EAG) 3 license in the upcoming 700 megahertz auction that will be held to assign spectrum now devoted to UHF channels 60-69. That license covers the 752-762 MHz and 782-792 MHz bands.

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