NACEPF, Mobile Beacon Disappointed by Carr Letter
A letter FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr sent Monday is “disappointing” and “implies EBS is currently underutilized and existing EBS licensees are somehow to blame,” the North American Catholic Educational Programming Foundation and Mobile Beacon emailed. The two responded to a…
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letter to NACEPF asking about its business practices in light of its holdings of educational broadband service spectrum (see 1907080070). Both are reviewing the letter and intend to “respond appropriately,” they said. “NACEPF and Mobile Beacon have already provided the Commission with extensive information about the scope and depth of our existing programs, which specifically and successfully provide broadband for educational purposes, not only in our licensed market areas but throughout all 50 states. Moreover, over 95 percent of all organizations and individuals that filed comments in this proceeding have told the Commission to preserve EBS for education, many detailing various ways they are using Mobile Beacon’s service to support education." Commissioners are to take up an order reallocating the EBS band Wednesday (see 1906180072).