Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Private Networks, Inc. On WT Docket No. 02-55 and ET docket No. 00-258

From: Marcelrf <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 17:17:48 -0500

March 5, 2004
Ex Parte Memorandum
Marlene Dortch, Secretary
Federal Communication Commission
445 Twelfth Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554

Re: WT Docket No. 02-55 and ET docket No. 00-258
Dear Ms. Dortch:

On Thursday, March 4, 2004, Billy J. Parrott, President of Private
Networks, Inc. (PNI), met
with WTB Chief, John Muleta, and his legal advisor, Uzoma Onyeije, to
discuss the negative
impact on small, women and minority-owned businesses as a direct result
of the rulemaking
procedures referenced above. During the meeting, Mr. Parrott outlined
the extreme hardships
and unfair burdens these lengthy, drawn out proceedings have inflicted
on Ad Hoc MDS
Alliance members, ranging from loss of revenue due to forced
cancellation of spectrum leases to
being kicked off transmitter sites by present Lessees. It was also
pointed out that MDS Licensees
are required to maintain operations at the same time the Commission was
creating conditions that
made it impossible to maintain. Mr. Parrott cited an instance where old
equipment went dark
and is unfixable. Thus, under the present rules new equipment must be
installed at frequency
location in which the Commission three years ago decreed that we would
have to vacate.
Further, in order to maintain their licenses, Ad Hoc members are being
forced to enter into
expensive site leases at a spectrum location that has been confiscated
by the Commission. In
these instances, Ad Hoc licensees are jolted from a revenue-producing
mode unto an expense
mode.

Finally, Mr. Parrott expressed concerns that, while Ad Hoc has supported
both rectifying the
public safety issues and establishing Advanced Wireless Services, he is
fearful that the
Commission is taking a path that will require MDS Licensees to shoulder
too much of the
burden. This is particular disconcerting to Ad Hoc because its members
caused neither the
interference in the 800 Band, nor the desire by AWS proponents for the
2.1 GHz band.

Sincerely,

s/Billy J Parrott
Cc: John Muleta,
Uzoma Onyeije

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