FCC may pull wireless licenses; FCC judge says Liberty lacked candor. (Bertholdi Cable Co.)

Broadcasting & Cable, March, 1998 by McConnell, Chris

FCC judge says Liberty lacked candor

An FCC judge has moved to pull wireless licenses that telcom, up-and-comer RCN is using to serve some Manhattan video subscribers.

The 15 temporary permits at issue are held by Bartholdi Cable Co. (formerly Liberty Cable Co.), which has been providing microwave transmission services to RCN. RCN, in turn, has been using the microwave paths to serve New York video subscribers it inherited when it acquired Liberty last year. The acquisition did not include the spectrum permits at issue.

Bartholdi--which retained Liberty's license applications and temporary permits after the RCN acquisition--had applied for permanent licenses to use the 15 microwave links.

But early this month FCC...

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