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pubulications (and FCC filings), SkyTel is involved in public-interest wireless. This often involves defense of the spectrum needed in FCC and
court proceedings. In those proceedings, parties on the other side, including defendants listed below-- and the parties to whom they attempt to
assign their spectrum-- take the positioin before the FCC that they do not comprehend the charges against them for unlawful action, and in
any case that no claims against them should be considered at the FCC
R.N. Tendai Richards level or in any court at all. A FCC license provides immunity from
WINNE, BANTA, HETHERINGTON, federal or state law claims, they effectively assert. SkyTel believes
BASRALIAN & KAHN, P.C. these positions could not be more against applicable law and certainly
public policy.
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East Wing licensing and related law. Many of the issues described in this case
Hackensack, NJ 07601 occur far too often in FCC licensing matters This is a prime cause of
spectrum shortage and lack of advancement in wireless technology and
systems. Allegations that the problem is simply a shortage of spectrum
Patrick J. Richard is false. The primary cause is that wireless is substantially corrupted
prichard@no ssaman. com and retarded by actions as complained of herein, which for various
reasons (of which the FCC staff are aware, some of whom have
NOSSAMAN LLP complained to Congress) go unchecked at the FCC which, in turn,
50 Califomia Street, 34th Floor encourages more of it.
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COMMLINICATIONS/LAND MOBILE
LLC, aDelaware Limited Liability
Company, PAGING SYSTEMS,INC., a
California corporation and TOUCH TEL
CORPORATION, a California '
corporation, and JOHN DOE Nos. 1-20
Defendants
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Foundation ("Skybridge"), Telesaurus VPC, LLC ("Telesaurus VPC") (now known as Verde
LLC ("Intelligent") and Telesaurus Holdings, GB, LLC ("Telesaurus GB") (collectively
"Plaintifß"), and for their Second Amended Complaint against Defendants Mobex Network
Services, LLC - (formerly known as Regionet Wireless I,icense, LLC) ("Regionet") and Mobex
("MCLM'z), Paging Systems, Inc. ('PSI") and Touch Tel Corporation ("Touch Tel") and John
1. This is an action brought pursuant to: (i) The Federal Communications Act
("FCA") for mandatory injunctive relief under 47 U.S.C. $401(b) and for damages under 47
U.S.C. g206 and 207 and; (ii) the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C.$$l 2, and 15) for damages resulting,
THE PARTIES
Since 1988, Havens' principal occupation and business has been obtaining "geographic" licenses
exclusive-use radio frequencies or spectrum. Havens conducts business based upon these
licenses to provide spectrum and wireless telecommunications services to govemmental and non-
governmental entities within the State of New Jersey and other states, including for "Intelligent
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Transportation Systems" or "ITS." Havens is the founder, majority owner, manager, and
president of the other Flaintiffs, and has assigned to the other Plaintiffs some of the licenses
(described below) at issue in this case. Mr. Havens and all other Flaintiffs have coordinated
limited liability company with its principal place of business in Berkeley, California. It has been
engaged since 1999 in the business of obtaining FCC geographic licenses in the AMTS radio
service for certain exclusive-use frequencies or spectrum, and conducts business based on these
licenses to provide spectrum and wireless telecommunications services to governmental and non-
governmental entities.
limited liability company with its principal place of business in Berkeley, California. It has been
engaged since 2004 in the business of obtaining licenses in the AMTS radio service for certain
exclusive-use frequencies or spectrum, and conducts business based on these licenses to provide
entities within the State of New Jersey and other states, including for ITS.
place of business in Berkeley, California. It has been engaged since 2005 in the business of
obtaining FCC geographic licenses in the AMTS radio service for certain exclusive-use
frequencies or spectrum , and conducts business based on these licenses to provide spectrum and
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principal place of business in Berkeley, California. It has been engaged since 2001 in the
business of obtaining FCC geographic licenses in the Multilateration Location and Monitoring
Service" ("M-LMS") radio service from the FCC, and conducts business based on these licenses
govemmental entities within the State of New Jersey and other states, including for ITS. M-LMS
is also a transportation-system radio service, as is AMTS. Telesaurus Holdings has a joint core
plan and business with the other Plaintiffs to use its M-LMS licenses integrated with the others'
AMTS licenses for multi-band (multiple frequency or spectrum bands) ITS wireless systems and
services.
Section 501(cX3) of the Internal Revenue Code as an educational, scientific and charitable
organization holding assets þrimarily FCC licenses) and operating solely in the field of public
interest wireless in support of government needs. It has been engaged since 2007 in the business
of obtaining FCC geographic licenses in the AMTS and M-LMS radio services for certain
frequencies or spectrum, and conducts exclusively nonprofit business based on these licenses to
govemmental entities within the State of New Jersey and other states. The primary purpose of
Skybridge as a non-profit corporation is to support, with certain spectrum and advanced wireless
techniques and systems (and underlying research and development), governmental goals and
programs in the United States (including in the State of New Jersey) in "Intelligent
Transportation Systems" to reduce accidents, congestion, pollution and other problems in the
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nation's transportation systems. All of the Skybridge's assets have been and most of its
operational services are provided via outright charitable contributions by the other Plaintiffs.
Delaware limited lïability company formed in 2005, with offices in Mississippi, alleged by its
putative sole owner (Mrs. Rev. Sandra Depriest of Lowndes County Mississippi. who uses the
"Rev." title including in FCC matters) to be a valid legal entity. MCLM is the holder of certain
FCC "Site-Based" AMTS licenses (defined below). Certain of MCLM's Site-Based Licenses are
associated with stations putatively located in, conducting operations in, and providing wireless
services in the State of New Jersey, incfuding in the areas of most population and transportation
traffic (in the "Northeast Corridor"). (A "station" is defined in FCC rules as, in sum, the
physical radio and antenna equipment installed at a site and operated to provide service under a
FCC license.) MCLM obtained its AMTS licenses by assignments from Mobex Network
Services, LLC and its parent Mobex Communications, Inc., as part of MCLM's purchase of
Mobex. Upon information and belief, MCLM is actually controlled not by Sandra Depriest but
by her husband Donald Depriest and affiliates.l Sandra and Donald Depriest were married during
limited liability company with its principal place of business in Alexandria, Virginia and/or
Jeffersonville, Indiana. Mobex-N was the holder of "Site-Based" AMTS licenses, including
I MCLM, per MCLM's own statements to the FCC, alleges to have the following ownership
structure: I00% of the membership interests of MCLM are owned by S/RIW Partnership, L.P.
SiRIW Partnership, L.P. has as its general partner Communications Investments, Inc. Sandra
DePriest owns 100% of the shares in Communications Írvestments, [tc. and Sandra DePriest
owns 100% of the partnership shares in S/RIW Partnership, L.P. Other MCLM statements are in
conflict, however.
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licenses for stations putatively located and operated in the State of New Jersey that were
assigned to, or acquired by, MCLM. Defendant Mobex Communications, Inc. ("Mobex-C") is
or has been a Delaware corporation that owns and/or controls, or owned and/or controlled,
Mobex-N including at the time Mobex-N assigned the above-described AMTS licenås to
MCLM. Upon information and belief either or both of Mobex-N and Mobex-C, during the time
period relevant to this Complaint, controlled or were controlled by other companies using the
name "Mobex". Mobex-N and Mobex-C will be collectively referred to herein as "Mobex."2
10. Defendant Paging Systems, Inc. ("PSI") is a corporation organized,under the laws
of the State of California, with its principal place of business located in Burlingame, Califomia.
PSI is the holder of certain "site-Based" AMTS licenses, including licenses associated with
stations putatively located in the State of New Jersey. Defendant Touch Tel Corp. ("Touch Tel"
or "Touchtel") is a California corporation that seryes to carry out PSI's alleged construction and
operation of purportedly valid AMTS licensed stations across the country. According to filings
with the FCC and State authorities: PSI alleges to be fully owned and controlled by Susan
Cooper, and Touch Tel alleges to be fully owned and controlled by her spouse, Robert Cooper.
Upon information and belief, the actual controlling owner of FSI is Robert Cooper, not Susan
Cooper, but this fact is hidden in required disclosures to the FCC and State authorities. Susan
and Robert Cooper, who reside in California, were married during all times relevant to this
Complaint
2
Regionet Wireless License, LLC changed its name to Mobex Network Services, LLC on
August 6,2001per State of Delaware records. Regionet Wireless Operations LLC was allegedly
fully merged into Regionet Wireless License, LLC as of March 21,2001per State of Delaware
corporate records. Waterway Communications System, LLC was allegedly merged into Mobex
Network Services, LLC as ofNovember 1,2004 per State of Delaware corporate records. Other
Mobex or MCLM records are in conflict, however.
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11. John Does Nos. l-20 are officers, directors, owners and/or agents of the other
Defendants who have personally participated in the wrongful acts alleged herein andloroperated,
or obtained or sought benefits from, the shell entities as mere alter egos. The full extent of the
individual John Doe's participation is unknown at present and such defendants will be named
72. Plaintifß are informed and therefore allege that Defendants, and each of them, at
all relevant times, were the agents, alter egos, employees, servants, representatives and/or co-
conspirators of their respective co-Defendants, and were at all relevant times acting within the
scop-e, purpose, and authority of such agency. Furthermore MCLM/IvIobex (including Mobex-N
and Mobex-C) and PSVTouchtel are alter egos of one another, as evidenced, inter alia,bytheir
conflicting statements as to ownership and control contained in FCC filings and in other public
documents. The principals of MCLM, Donald and Sandra DePriest, are subject to many
judgments arising out of their conduct of MCLM and are currently under investigation by the
FCC for similar wrongful conduct. MCLM/l\4obex and PSI (or PSVTouchtel) are, including
with regard to their AMTS licenses, FCC-regulated common-carrier "Commercial Mobile Radio
Services" ("CMRS") that must submit certain periodic reports conceming CMRS contributions
to the Universal Service Fund (that supports basic communication services to eligible low-
income persons), but during the course of events described herein and to this day, they each have
failed to file said reports in the time, form, and extent required. As used herein, the term
"Defendants," shall be construed in its broadest possible sense, to include any one of the
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13. This Court has personal jurisdiction over the Defendants because each of the
Defendants transacts business within the State of New Jersey, because each of the Defendants
owns, possesses and/or uses property within the State of New Jersey and/or because each of the
Defendants has consented to the jurisdiction of this Court by actively participating in this case.
14. This Court has subject matter jurisdiction over Plaintiffs' claim for injunctive
relief in this case pursuant to 47 U.S.C. $401(b), and over Plaintiffs' claims for monetary
15. Venue is proper in this judicial District because a substantial part of the events
and omissions giving rise to this case occurred in this District, and/or because a substantial part
of the property that is the subject of this action is situated within this District,
operation voice and data communications to customerr.3 Th" AMTS ("Automated Maritime
Telecommunications Systems") service was created by the FCC to service maritime customers,
principally along extensive coastal and major navigable inland waterway transportation routes,
and later expanded to also allow service to customers on land. AMTS was created to serve the
unique requirements of the transportation sector, including the need for continuous coverage
3
Herein, "AMTS" is used to mean the AMTS radio service, or of or related to the AMTS radio
service. In FCC rules and licensing, there are maîy "radio services" each involving a specific
g.oup of radio frequencies or band of radio spectrum; particular technical, usage and other rules;
and particular licensing mechanisms. The AMTS radio service, under FCC rules and orders, was
established and is maintained primarily for a mobile, two-way wireless service over vast areas
(first maritime, then expanded to include land) serving transportation-systems involving multiple
overlapping-coverage transceiver stations (on high buildings, towers or sites), as opposed to
wireless to fixed end points, or one-way broadcast wireless. AMTS has unique attributes
especially suitable for "Intelligent Transportation Systems" wireless systems and services, on the
waterways and on land, further discussed herein.
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over long distances, and is especially suited in frequency range and quantity and other attributes
for this service. The expansion to land service noted above includes the Northeast rail and
roadway corridor, which links Boston and Washington, D.C., and which passes through New
Jersey, an approximate center. Plaintiff and Defendants have competed for AMTS licenses and
AMTS-licensed based business along the Northeast Corridor including in the State ofNew
Jersey, during the period relevant to this Complaint, and remain in such competition to this day.
17. There are two types of AMTS licenses that are relevant to this case - Geographic
Licenses and Site-Based Licenses. The term "Geographic License," within the context of the
wireless communications industry, refers to a license issued by the FCC to a high bidder in a
public auction, which authorizes to the licensee exclusive use of specified radio frequenciesa to
construct and operate wireless telecommunications stations within adefined wide geographic
area. ln the case of AMTS services, each Geogtaphic License typically encompasses a number
of whole or partial states. The term "Site-Based License," means a license issued by the FCC on
a first-come, first-served basis, at no cost (except for nominal application processing fees), prior
to the time a public auction is held for the associated Geographic License for the same
frequencies (same in frequency range and bandwidth, also called "co-channel" or "same
channel" frequencies in FCC rules) in a given region. Site-Based Licenses authorize the
construction and operation of systems only at the specific station locations for which the Site-
Based Licensee has applied. Site-Based Licenses are also known in the wireless industry as
"Incumbent Licenses" (indicating their existence prior to the auction of the larger, surrounding
4
Herein, "frequencies" and "spectrum" are used interchangeably, as is common in FCC-licensed
based regulatory and business coÍtmunications. Each means a quantity of radio ftequencies in
frequency range and bandwidth.
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18. Until the first AMTS auction in2004, all AMTS licenses were Site-Based
Licenses. Site-Based licensing (for new or expanded Stations)S *as "flozen" by the FCC in or
about 2000,because the FCC determined that it would transition to Geographic licensing by
auction. Following the first auction of AMTS Geographic Licenses in2004,and the second
auction in 2005, all newly-issued AMTS licenses have been auctioned Geographic Licenses.
(No new AMTS licenses have been issued after these auctions, inasmuch as all AMTS spectrum
in the nation was fully licensed via these auctions and the preceding Site-Based licensing
scheme.) Under the current system, preexisting Site-Based Licenses are afforded certain
protections in an FCC rule,47 C.F.R. $S0.385(b)(1), to continue their Station operations without
interference. The same rule, in another section, 47 C.F.R. $80.3S5(c), provides that if the Site-
Based license (or a Station under the license) is terminated, revoked, or otherwise becomes or is
found invalid, the spectrum involved "automatically reverts" to the co-channel Geographic
ß. Plaintiffs are the holders of certain AMTS Geographic Licenses awarded in the
two FCC AMTS auctions held in2004 and2005. These licenses, in the aggregate, cover the vast
majority of the United States, including the State of New Jersey. ln all of New Jersey, Plaintifß
hold the maximum, full amount of AMTS spectrum on a Geographic-License basis: both the "A"
and the "8" blocks of AMTS spectrum, which is2}/rlHzin bandwidth combined. Plaintiffs hold
in full the "co-channel" (same-frequencies, as noted above) AMTS Geographic License spectrum
5
Und", the FCC rule applicable to AMTS, 47 CFR $80.5, a "station" is defined as: "One or
more fradio] transmitters or a combination of transmitters and receivers, including the accessory
equipment, necessary at one location for carrying on radio communication services."
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in relation to all of the Defendant's Site-Based T.icense Stations in the State of New Jersey
(including those noted immediately below) and the surrounding areas at all times relevant to this
20. Defendants are holders and controllers of Site-Based AMTS Licenses6 located in
various regions, oostly in and around the major cities along the coast lines, Great I akes and
Mississippi River systems; including in the State of New Jersey, with alleged public Commercial
Mobile Radio Service (CMRS) to most of the State's area and population. For example, PSI
holds license Call Sign WQA216 for a statipn that was allegedly conskucted at the former World
Trade Center and that can provide service to areas of New Jersey. MCLM holds license Call
Sign WRV 374 withthe following station locations (per the FCC's online license database) in
New Jersey and New York: station location #15 in Verona, NJ; station location #25 in
Perrinville, NJ, station location #14 inselden, NY; station location #18 in Valhalla, NY; and
station location #33 atthe former One V/orld Trade Center. As FCC AMTS licensees and
purported operators of stations, Defendants have an obligation to comply with the relevant FCA
and FCC rules. However, atmany,if not all, of their AMTS Stations, Defendants have failed to
comply with the relevant FCA and FCC rules, as described below.
21. Because the territories associated with Site-Based AMTS Licenses and
Geographic AMTS Licenses always overlap (the CMRS service area of a Site-Based AMTS
Licensed stations is fully contained within the much larger co-channel Geographic License for
the region), the FCC has formulated rules designed to ensure cooperation between the licensees
these classes of licenses. In particular, these rules are designed to prevent "co-channel
interference" (i.e., crosstalk and other interference from multiple radio transmitters using the
6
Th" individual owners of the Defendants have transferred ownership on several occasions,
making a determination as to the precise ownership of the subject licenses unknown.
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same frequency). The primary rule the FCC has promulgated provides that the Geographic
Licensee build and operate stations no closer than a certain range of lawful stations operated
under a valid co-channel (same frequencies) Site-Based AMTS license. This provides the fixed-
location Site-Based stations (which are not permitted to change their location, antenna height, or
any direction) a certain measure of interference protection. This rule (the l'Contour Protection
(l)The AMTS geographic area licensee must locate its stations at least 120
kilometers from the stations of co-channel site-based AMTS licensees. Shorter
separations between such stations will be considered by the Commission on a
case-by-case basis upon submission of a technical analysis indicating that at least
18 dB [decibel] protection will be provided to a site-based licensee's predicted 38
dBu signal level contour. The site-based licensee's predicted 38 dBu signal level
contour shall be calculated using the F(50, 50) freld strength chart for Channels 7-
13 in $73.699 (Fig. 10) of this chapter, with a 9 dB correction for antenna height
differential. The 18 dB protection to the site-based licensee's predicted 38 dBu
signal level contour shall be calculated using the F(50, 10) field strength chart for
Channels 7-13 in $73.699 (Fig. 10a) of this chapter, with a 9 dB correction factor
for antenna height differential.
(emphasis added)
22. This framework presupposes that Site-Based Ljcensees will provide certain
information details to the co-channel Geographic Licensees regarding the current operating
parameters of the Site-Based Licensee's actual operating stations to enable the Geographic
Geographic Licensee does not choose to use the more-distant, 120-kilometer spacing described
in this rule). In addition, based on the FCC "freeze" order (see paragraph 18 above) said current
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station details can not exceed those of the same stations at the time of the freeze. This
cooperation principal in this rule is also reflected in FCC ruIe 47 C.F.R. $80.70(a).
23. Plaintiffs and Defendants are competitors. Over the past few years and to this
day, they have been involved in litigation in a number ofjurisdictions, including administrative
litigation before the FCC. In the course of this litigation, the FCC, through its Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau (the "Wireless Bureau"), has issued several orders specifying the
minimum standard of cooperation expected from Site-Based Licensees (such as Defendants) and
Geographic Licensees (such as Plaintiffs) in order to forestall potential interference issues, and at
the same time to allow the Geographic licensees, Plaintiffs, effective use of their purchased
spectrum in the face of refusals by the Site-Based licensees, Defendants, to provide the
information under Section 80.385(bX1) (collectively, the "Cooperation Orders"). For example,
in an April 8,2009 Order by the Wireless Bureau (FCC Order DA Og-7g3), at footnote 9
incumbents are expected to cooperate with geographic licensees in order to avoid and resolve
contour."); FCC Order DA l0-664 (Exhibít j\, atParugraph 6 ("Indeed, the Division directly
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addressed this issue, pointing out that AMTS site-based licensees are expected to cooperate with
geographic licensees in avoiding and resolving interference issues, and that this obligation
requires, at minimum, that the site-based licensee 'provid[e] upon request suffrcient information
24. Plaintiffs' AMTS Geographic Licenses encompass all of the State of New Jersey
and encompass all of the Defendants' Site-Based AMTS stations in the State ofNew Jersey, and
in adjacent States with Service Contours into the State of New Jersey that Defendants currently
allege are valid and operational. Specifically, Environmentel LLC holds Call Sign V/QCP8l0
for the North Atlantic B-Block that encompasses New Jersey, and [ntelligent Transportation &
Monitoring Wireless LLC holds Call Sign V/QGF310 for the North Atlantic A-Block that
encompasses New Jersey. Accordingly, under the Contour Protection Rule, Plaintifß and
Defendants are obligated to cooperate with one another in accordance with the Cooperation
25. In an effort to comply with 47 CFR $80.385(b) and the Cooperation Orders,
Plaintiffs have on numerous occasions requested that Defendants MCLM and PSI provide
Plaintiffs with sufficient information regarding the operating parameters of their stations to
enable Plaintiffs to calculate the protected contour of these stations. (,See, requests for operating
these requests, contending they are not required to provide Plaintifß with this information (See
Exhíbít 5).
26. Plaintiffs have also requested that the FCC issue an order directing MCLM to
comply with the Cooperation Orders and the underlying Contour Protection Rule. In response to
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this request, the Deputy Chief of the'Wireless Bureau (who has primary responsibility for AMTS
licensing matters), by communication dated Aprrl22,2010, indicated that "the Commission will
not involve itself in matters that licensees are expected to resolve between themselves ." (See
Exhibit 6). As such, Plaintiffs have no other effective administrative recourse before the FCC
both to block and restrain Plaintiffs as competitors, and to conceal the fact that these stations
have not in fact been lawfully constructed and/or lawfully maintained (or have other fatal defects
noted herein), any of which, if revealed, would result in Defendants' forfeiture of their Site-
Based licenses to the benefit of Plaintiffs including the licensed stations within the State of New
Jersey, including under subsections of FCC rules 47 CFR $$ 80.49, 1.946, and 1.955, and
28. FCC Rules generally require that when a Site-Based AMTS license is issued, the
required component stations must be constructed within two years of the granting of the license
(the "Construction Period"), or else the license automatically terminates. See 47 CFR $80.49
("For site-based AMTS coast station licensees, when a new license has been issued or additional
operating frequencies have been authorized, if the station or frequencies authorized have not
been placed in operation within two years from the date of the grant,the authorizationbecomes
invalid and must be returned to the Commission for cancellation."); see also 47 C.F.R. $$ 1.946,
1.955.
29. Additionally, FCC Rules impose certain "coverage" requirements upon Site-
Based AMTS licersees, which, among other things, obligate these licensees to construct two or
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more stations with overlapping radio-service coverage under a certain technical standard (also
Complaint, the then-existing version of 47 C.F.R. $80.a75(a) also provided that: (i) AMTS
applicants who proposed to serve a navigable inland waterway that is less than 150 miles in
length must serve that waterway in its entirety; and (ii) AM-TS applicants who proposed to serve
a navigable inland waterway that is more than 150 miles in length must provide continuity of
service along at least 60 percent of the waterway. An AMTS license "automatically terminates,
without specific [FCC] action," if the coverage requirement is not satisfied by the construction-
30. In the event a Site-Based AMTS license terminates automatically (it for example,
the licensee does not actually construct a component station by the construction deadline, or if
after valid and timely construction, the station is "permanently discontinued"), the "frequency
block" associated with this license reverts to the Geographic Licensee under 47 CFR $80.385(c):
(c) Anv recovered frequency blocks will revert automatically to the holder of
the geoqraphic area license within which such frequencies are included. Any
frequency blocks recovered where there is no geographic area licensee will be
retained by the Commission for future licensing.
(emphasis added).
surrender of licenses that have automatically terminated to the FCC for cancellation is
acquires spectrum licenses without the intent to utilize them lawfully (i.e., by
constructing component stations and providing service under relevant FCC rules) for the
"squatting" on the spectrum until a buyer is found for the spectrum. Spectrum
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anticompetitive in purpose and effect. Congress and the FCC moved from site-based
32. Defendants MCLM and PSI's refusal to provide Plaintiffs with the above-
block and restrain Plaintifß, their primary competitors, and conceal a wide-scale
warehousing scheme undertaken by Defendants in the State of New Jersey and other
33. Beginning several years ago, Defendants began applyng for and
obtaining Site-Based AMTS licenses along the coastlines and other waterways
throughout the United States, including in the State of New Jersey, with stations proposed
generally in the major urban areas. Defendants' intent in procuring these AMTS licenses
was not to develop them, but rather to warehouse them. Specifically, Defendants
intended to make the larger surrounding Geographic Licenses for the same frequencies
less economically viable to competitors in the upcoming auctions, so that Mobex and PSI
as the "Incumbent" Station licensees could succeed in the auctions with less competition
and atlower prices, or so that others succeeding in the auctions would have to deal with
these hcumbent Station holders, on terms favorable to these Incumbents, for a viable
CMRS, or any modern-day wireless service, is not viable in the competitive market). By
doing so, Defendants could reap asubstantial profit, including by selling or leasing their
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Site-Based licenses to successful bidders for the adjacent Geographic Licenses that would
34. In accordance with this warehousing scheme, Regionet, Mobex (and its
other predecessors in interest) (and thereafter MCLM) and PSI failed to construct a major
percentage of the stations that comprised their Site-Based AMTS licenses in the nation
within the two-year Construction Period mandated by the FCC (and in some cases by an
extension of that period afforded by the FCC). They also, with regard to a major portion
of their other Stations, failed to comply with the FCC's coverage requirements for these
stations (the construction required was to meet this coverage requirement, which also
35. Thereafter, Mobex, PSI and MCLM (the assignee of Mobex's Site-Based
AMTS licenses), by and through their princþals, attempted to conceal this failure from
the FCC, the public and Plaintiffs (the Geographic Licensees to which the Site-Based
spectrum would otherwise revert). Regionet, Mobex, PSI and MCLM, by and through
their principals, also made a number of false representations (including in public FCC
filings) regarding their purported compliance with the FCC's construction and coverage
requirements and consequent validity of the subject licenses, in order to conceal their
unlawful warehousing scheme. Among other things, these companies, through their
principals, have repeatedly and falsely represented to Plaintiffs, other competitors, and
the FCC, that all, or substantially all, of their initially granted AMTS Site-Based licensed
and component Stations were validly build and kept in permanent operation, including
providing the required CMRS maritime wireless services, when in fact they were not
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doing so for alarge portion of those licenses and Stations (and possibly all of those
licensing system, and continuing thereafter, Mobex (and its predecessors-in-interest) and
PSI (with Touchtel support) jointly agreed to restrain competition in the Pacific Coast,
Atlantic Coast, and Great Lakes regions, and thereafter in the Northeast Corridor, by
coordinating and applyng for AMTS site-based licenses at the same time in all regions.
The purpose and effect of this coordination was to permit Mobex to obtain the "A-Block"
AMTS spectrum and for PSI to obtain the "B Block" AMTS Spectrum. To this end of
transmitter location.
CA and met with the two principals in Regionet, Fred Daniel and Paul Van der Hayden.
Fred Daniel was the owner of Orion Telecom;which was later acquired by Regionet. Lr
their meeting, Mr. Havens was told in certain terms that Regionet had an option on the
PSI AMTS Licenses. This was relayed to Mr. Havens in the context of Mr. Havens
discussing how he could apply for inland waterways on the A-block AMTS spectrum.
Messrs. Daniel and Van der Hayden also mentioned that if Mr. Havens were to also
apply for B-block AMTS spectrum, he would also have to talk with Regionet.
38. Also, in 2000, after the meeting with Regionet, Mr. Havens spoke on the
phone twice with Robert Cooper, who represented PSI, holder of AMTS B-block Site-
Based licenses. In one of those calls, Mr. Cooper commented on Regionet having an
option on the PSI AMTS Licenses. He did not outright deny it, but said that Mr. Havens
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had to talk with him in any case about any applications that Mr. Havens might be
considering to submit for new AMTS B-block Site-Based licenses. He also specifically
said that persons associated with a big company were meeting him that day about buying
out all of the PSI AMTS spectrum and Regionet spectrum. The meaning of these
comments in this context is clear: Regionet and PSI were not only cooperating, Regionet
also had a financial stake in PSI's licenses, an interest required to be disclosed to the
FCC. Defendants did not disclose this financial interest because it was part of a secret
scheme and agreement to warehouse licenses and harm competitors and competition.
time to construct their respective licensed stations for the Great Lakes Region, asserting
that one of the primary reasons the FCC should grant the extension of time was to permit
Mobex and PSI to co-locate stations at the same site and share certain system components
to reduce costs. That purported agreement arose out of the close relationship between
the principal of PSI, Robert Cooper, and the principals of Mobex, John Reardon and
Michael Monier. In their éxtension request, Mobex and PSI argued that the extension
should be granted because it would reduce their costs because they could then share
facilities and certain equipment in order to provide more cost-effective service to the
public.
notifications filed with the FCC, associated with their putatively co-located sites, in
which they stated thatthey would "commence testing to commence services" "on or
about" acertaindate with respect to many of the facilities associated with the subject
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licenses. Defendants knew, when making these representations, that "testing had
filings made by the Defendants with the FCC. For example, Mobex and PSI jointly
petitioned (via separate petitions, which nonetheless adopted the same position and
supported one another) to extend the site-based station protection contour under 47
C.F.R. $S0.385(b)(1). Among the "bases" of these petitions was Mobex and PSI's
contention that their stations were properly built and operated. Mobex and PSI also
jointly petitioned the FCC before FCC Auction No. 57 (the first AMTS auction) at the
start of 2004, to postpone that auction. Again, among the bases for this request was
Defendants' specific representations that their stations were built and operated. Further,
in connection with a2005 AMTS auction, Defendants filed coordinated petitions to deny
the post-auction applications filed by certain of the Plaintiffs to be granted the licenses
audit of Mobex's and PSI's AMTS site-based licenses, in the course of which they
ultimately admitted that their prior representations regarding station construction had
been false and which resulted in the cancellation of several dozenof Defendants' licenses
for failure to construct component stations within the FCC's required construction period.
By way of a single example, in the 2004 AMTS audit, PSI admitted to the FCC that it did
not build 15 of its 25 Greatlakes stations that: (i) had a 2001 construction deadline; (ii)
PSI never returned for cancellation prior to the 2004 AMTS audit; (iiÐ PSI represented as
being constructed prior to the commencement of the first AMTS auction and (iv) for
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which PSI submitted renewal applications in year 2003. In the same 2004 audit, Mobex-
N admitted to not constructing over 20 stations along the Pacific Coast that it has
43. Defendants knew of each other's fraud and agreed to and facilitated it.
Among other reasons, by virtue of their alleged co-location, Defendants would have had
radio equipment in the same building visible to each other. Therefore, if one Defendant
did not build at the co-located site, then the other Defendant would have known that fact.
recognzethat if they were forced to provide the operating parameters of their Site-Based
AMTS stations, they would ultimately be forced to acknowledge that many of these
operated, or fell short ofthe required constructed coverage, and thus, in all such cases,
that under FCC rules the frequency blocks associated with these Site-Based licenses
herein, Plaintiffs have been blocked and restrained in use of their AMTS license
including for transactions with passenger rail carriers, including Amtrak, as well as
COUNT I
(Claim for a Mandatory Injunction Under 47 U.S.C. $401(b))
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41. The cooperation orders and,47 c.F.R. $S0.385 (the subject of the
other than for the payment of money" as that term is defined in 47 U.S.C. $a01(b). The
Cooperation Orders were made and duly served and publicly noticed pursuant to a proper
delegation of authority by the FCC to the Wireless Bureau, and $30.385 was properly
$155(c)(3), the Cooperation Orders and $80.385 have the same force and effect as Orders
of the FCC.
48. The Cooperation Orders were regularly made and duly served, and are
with geographic licensees in order to avoid and resolve interference issues." As noted by
the FCC, this requirement "includes, at a minimum, providing upon request sufficient
50. ln an effort to comply with47 CFR $80.385 and the Cooperation Orders,
Plaintifß have on numerous occasions requested that Defendants MCLM and PSI
provide Plaintiffs with sufficient information regarding the actual operating parameters of
Licensees in this region; to calculate the protected signal contour of Defendants' Site-
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Based stations. Defendants have flouted each of these requests. As such, Defendants
have disregarded and failed to comply with the Cooperation Orders, an order of the FCC.
respect to the Cooperation Orders. Furthermore, the FCC has expressly indicated its
intent "not to involve itself'with respect to the enforcement of the Compensation Orders.
52. Plaintiffs have been injured by Defendants' failure to comply with the
Cooperation Orders. This failure impedes Plaintiffs from using their AMTS Geographic
Licenses in many major markets in the nation, including in the State of New Jersey, and
from the economic opportunities (and for Skybridge, the charitable opportunities as well)
said spectrum would provide (including specific major available transactions) had the
C.F.R. $S0.385(c), which provides for ths automatic reversion to Geographic Licensees
Geographic Licenses. As alleged herein, Defendants have failed and refused to notify the
FCC of the automatic termination of their licenses by operation of law for failure to
construct associated stations (or for other fatal-defect reasons noted herein: lack of
required coverage, unlawful construction and operation that does not count as valid,
permanent discontinuance, etc.) and, in so doing, have sought to undermine the purpose
of $s0.385(c).
regulations and procedures requiring AMTS licensees to make annual filings, and
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revenues; (ii) FCC rules, regulations and procedures requiring AMTS licensees to make
accurate filings on FCC Form 601 when seeking eligibility for certain bidding
preferences under FCC rules; and (iii) FCC rules, regulations and procedures which
require licensees to fully and accurately disclose license applications and licenses that
COUNT II
(Violations Under the FCA $$201(b)' 301,308,309(i)' 312 and 503'
FCC Rules $$1.2101, 1.9001, 1.17,1.65,1.903 1.917(c),1.919 and 1.948, and related FCA
and FCC Rule Sections)
56. Defendants are "common carriers" under 47 U.S.C. $206, insofar as they
wire or radio," and otherwise in accordance with the statutory definitions set forth in 47
U.S.C. $$153(10) and 332(c)(1XA). In addition, Defendants have alleged before the
FCC and the market to operate lawful AMTS Stations which are by rule classified as
l.glg and l.948,along with other related FCA and FCC Rules, by, among other things:
did not intend to, knew they could not, and did not, comply with their obligations
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component Stations;
(b.) Falsely representing to the FCC, the market, and other parties that certain
serve the public, and thereafter falsely representing to the FCC, the market and
termination to the FCC as required, in order to permit the FCC to cancel these
Station licenses in the FCC public licensing database, which would have (i)
before the above-noted FCC auctions, allowed Plaintiffs to apply for the spectrum
involved in applications for Site-Based licenses, and (ii) after Plaintiffs obtained
their Geographic licenses in the two AMTS auctions, resulted in the above-noted
(d.) Falsely representing to the FCC and other parties that Defendants had
the waterways subject of the licenses, when in fact they failed to do so, and, by
(e.) Falsely representing to the FCC and other parties that Defendants were
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(f.) Falsely representing to the FCC and other parties that Defendants used
Station equipment that complied with all FCC requirements for AMTS, including
for the required Interconnection, failing which the licenses and component
stations were unlawful operations that did not count toward meeting the
(g.) Renewing licenses that had terminated and operating Stations without a
valid FCC license, and failing to disclose these unlawful actions to the FCC and
the public;
(h) Operating Stations that were unlawfully moved to new locations, and/or
expansion of the Station's service contour, and not reporting the unlawful
operations and the invalidation of the licenses involved for cancellation to the
FCC; and
58. The foregoing violations are actionable, among other reasons, because
Defendants as alleged herein have been deemed by the FCC to be "unjust and
unreasonable" practices and therefore "unlawful" practices under the FCA, including
under $201(b), for which a cause of action lies against Defendants pursuant to 47 U.S.C.
$$206 and207.
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major urban areas of the nation, and in other areas, in use of their AMTS licenses
FCC auctions AMTS Geographic Commercial licenses that, under the FCA and
FCC rules, provide rights to use the exclusive spectrum involved for lawful
profitable purposes (and for Skybridge, its nonprofit purposes) - protected from
(b) Plaintiffs were not able to seek, obtain, and use for various economic
Defendants' Licenses that had fully or in part terminated by operation of law and
should have been surrendered by Defendants. Some of this spectrum would have
been available for Plaintiffs to apply for prior to the suspension of the Site-Based
(c.) Plaintiffs' efforts to pursue and obtain certain financing in connection with
companies, end users of licenses and licensed systems, and others, were interfered
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(d.) Plaintiffs have been delayed in, and/or prevented from, attempting,
portions thereof), and for Skybridge, said restraint involves its nonprofit support
(e.) Plaintifß have incurred substantial legal and other costs in their attempts
to mitigate and avoid the damages caused by Defendants' actions and omissions
advantages arising out of relations with the FCC and the other parties, which is essential
to Plaintiffs'wireless business, has been undermined and delayed. Had Defendants acted
in compliance with their legal obligations, Plaintiffs had the financial and other capability
to and would have: (i) applied for and obtained the AMTS spectrum in the Defendants'
Licenses; (ii) placed this spectrum into operation via stations, leases, sales, and other
uses; and (iii) succeeded in securing other economic advantages in relation to the FCC,
seeking and obtaining from the FCC the spectrum in the Defendants' FCC Licenses, from
the time Plaintiffs were formed, until the time the FCC eliminated any possibility of
seeking such spectrum by freezing all licensing in the AMTS service for a period of time
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prior to the institution of its new exclusive method of AMTS licensing via the
63. Because Plaintiffs have been directly and indirectly damaged as a result of
Defendants' conduct, including via the loss of pa¡rments to Plaintiffs they are entitled to under
the FCA and FCC rules, as holders of exclusive-spectrum AMTS Geographic licenses, by virtue
of (i) Defendants' unlawful blocking of Plaintiffs by violation of the Cooperation Orders and the
underlying Conlour Protection Rule; and (ii) Defendants' unlawful retention and use of AMTS
Site-Based Licenses and component Station licenses whose associated spectrum would otherwise
have reverted to and been part of Plaintiffs' exclusive Geographic Licenses, Plaintiffs may
maintain a suit for damages in this Court pursuant to FCA $$ 206 and207.
COUNT III
(Violation of the Sherman Act 15 U.S.C. $$1 and 2 )
though fully set forth herein , and,in particular ,paragraphs 22-39 (describing the scope of
combining and./or conspiring, in unreasonable restraint of trade or commerce among the several
states, in the AMTS market, as evidenced by the wrongful concerted acts described herein,
have known that they could not and did not comply with their obligation to timely
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construct licensed stations and provide required coverage and service to the
public;
(b.) Falsely representing to the industry, and in filings with the FCC which
were intended to be seen and relied upon by potential competitors and others in
the industry, that certain stations had been or would imminently be timely
constructed and operated to serve the public, when in fact they were not, would
failure and termination to the FCC, as required for FCC cancellation of the station
licenses;
(d.) Falsely representing to the industry, and in filings with the FCC which
were intended to be seen and relied on by potential competitors and others in the
not constructed many of the stations they were required by their licenses to
(e.) Falsely representing to the FCC and other parties that Defendants were
(f.) Falsely representing to the FCC and other parties that Defendants used
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(h.) Renewing licenses that had terminated, operating stations without any
FCC license, and failing to disclose these unlawful actions to the FCC and public;
geographic market for AMTS, are manifestly anticompetitive and constitute a per se
coverage, intercommunications, antenna site leases and other aspects of service, have
herein, Plaintiffs have been prevented from consummating transactions with passenger
rail carriers, including Amtrak, as well as carriers in Boston and the State of New Jersey.
actions as alleged herein is of a type the antitrust laws were intended to prevent and flows
from that with which makes the Defendants' actions unlawful. This unlawful activity also
70. In doing the acts described above, Defendants combined and conspired
with one other for the unlawful purpose of unreasonably restraining trade or preventing
including under the "Essential Facilities Doctrine," by their clear, sustained refusal to
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provide the threshold essential information that Plaintiffs need to enable them to plan,
build and operate their Geographic AMTS licensed stations: the operating details of
Defendants' AMTS Site Based licensed stations under FCC Rule $S0.385(b)(1) and the
Two Cooperation Orders. Defendants have sole access to this information (the
or reasonably to obtain this information on their own or from any third party. Moreover,
it was feasible, and indeed it would have been easy and inexpensive, for Defendants to
deliberate, ongoing, and was specifically intended to injure its rival competitors
(Plaintiffs), and to allow Defendants to maintain unlawful, invalid FCC licenses and
stations. Defendants have denied the Operations Detail Information to their primary
competitors (Flaintiffs) in order to control the market and business in the AMTS radio
service including for Intelligent Transportation Services, and did so in violation of the
service requirement. It is clearly essential under FCC rules and for practicalradio-
interference and related time, cost and quality-oÊservice reasons, for reasons described
above.
(a) As to Count One, issue an Order directing Defendants, and those under their
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control, to comply with the Cooperation Orders and 47 C.F.R. $80.385(b)(1), and specifically
calculate the protected contour of Defendants' Site-Based AMTS stations and thus the portions
of Plaintiffs' same-channel Geographic licenses they may use, along with an award of attomeys'
(b) As to Count Two, enter a judgment for monetary damages in favor of Plaintiffs
and against Defendants and any entities to whom Defendants may have transferred assets to
avoid satisfying the judgment, jointly and severally, in an amount to be proven at trial, along
(c) As to Count Three, enter a judgment for monetary damages in favor of Plaintiffs and
against Defendants and any entities to whom Defendants may have transferred assets to avoid
satisfying the judgment, jointly and severally, in an amount to be proven at trial, along with an
Patrick J. Richard
pnchard@nossaman.com
50 California Street, 34th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94lll
Tel: 415.398.3600 I Fax: 415.398.2438
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EXHIBIT
Document3
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April 2009
DA 09-793
Dear Mr Brown
This letter responds to your December 18 2008 request filed on behalf Maritime
Communications/Land Mobile LLC MC/LM that we clarify certain rules governing the Automated
Maritime Telecommunications System AMTS service As set forth below we agree in part with your
proposed interpretations
First you request that we clarify Section 80.385b1 of the Commissions Rules which
provides that AMTS geographic licensees may locate stations within 120 kilometers of co-channel site-
based AMTS licensees only upon showing that at least 18 dB protection will be provided to the site-
based licensees predicted 38 dBu signal level contour.2 You note that the maximum permissible effective
radiated
power ERP for many AMTS stations is one thousand watts3 and propose that for
purposes of
calculating site-based AMTS stations predicted 38 dBu signal contour the site-based station be
assumed to operate with one thousand watts ERP rather than the maximum ERP of which the station is
actually capable
We decline to adopt your proposed interpretation Instead we conclude that the Commission
intended for an AMTS geographic licensees obligation to provide co-channel interference protection to
an incumbent site-based station to be based on the site-based stations actual operating parameters The
Commission based the AMTS co-channel interference protection rules on the analogous rules governing
the spectrally adjacent 220-222 M1-lz service.4 When it
adopted those rules the Commission expressly
stated that the 38 dBu contours of incumbent licensees were to be calculated on the basis of actual
Letter dated Dec 18 2008 from Dennis Brown to Scot Stone Deputy Chicf Mobility Division Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau
Specifically AMTS stations with an antenna height up to 61 meters that are located more than 129 or 169
kilometers respectively from Channel 10 or 13 television station See 47 C.F.R 80.215hl
4See Amendment of the Commissions Rules Concerning Maritime Communications Second Memorandum
Opinion and Order and F4flh Report and Order PR Docket No 92-257 17 FCC Rcd 6685 6700 312002 FOh
Report and Order holding that AMTS geographic licensees should adhere to the co-channel interference
protection standard that is used in the adjacent 220-222 MHz band on recon Third Memorandum Opinion and
Order 18 FCC Red 24391 2003 We note moreover that the language of Section 80.385b1 follows the
analogous 220-222 MHz service rules Compare 47 C.F.R 80.385b1 with 47 C.F.R 90.723k
90.763b1 ii
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Dennis Brown Bsq
Request for Clarification of Sections 80.3 85 and 80.215
their theoretical maximum operating facilities rather than on their actual operating facilities would be
spectrally inefficient and disserve the public interest.6 This concern applies equally to the AMTS
service.7 Moreoever assuming that incumbent site-based stations are operating with one thousand watts
ERP would underprotect any stations not subject to the ERP limit that are operating with higher ERP
which also would be contrary to the Comniissions intent.8 Finally basing the AMTS geographic
licensees co-channel interference protection obligations on the site-based stations actual operating
parameters is consistent with our recent decision applying the AMTS interference protection rules to
determine whether geographic licensees proposed stations provided the requisite protection to co
channel site-based stations.9
See Amendment of Part 90 of the Commissions Rules to Provide for the Use of the 220-222 MHz Band by the
Private Land Mobile Radio Service Third Report and Order Pjflh Notice of Proposed Rule Making PR Docket No
89-552 ON Docket No 93-252 PP Docket No 93-253 12 FCC Rcd 10943 11026 174 1997 stating that
the predicted 38 dBuV/m contour of the Phase licensees will be calculated based on the licensees authorized
effective radiated power ERP and antenna height-above-average-terrain HAAT not on the maximum allowable
ERP and HAAT provided in our rules for the 220-222 MHz band
Amendment of Part 90 of the Commissions Rules to Provide for the Use of the 220-222 MHz Band by the
Private Land Mobile Radio Service Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration PR Docket No 89-5 52
ON Docket No 93-252 PP Docket No 93-253 13 FCC Red 14569 14604 73 1998 If we were to assume
that all 220 MHz Phase licensees are operating at the maximum power and antenna height for the 220 MHz service
when many are not operating at such parameters and may never operate at such parameters we could force
Phase II licensees to provide considerably greater protection to co-channel Phase licensees than necessary and
thereby potentially deny service to the public in areas beyond the Phase licensees actual 38 dBu service contour
It is our understanding that MC/LM is concerned that unless Section 80.3 85b is
interpreted as requested there
exists the potential for geographic AMTS licensee to interpose station between two of the incumbents stations
The Commission has concluded however that such scenario will not occur if the incumbent licensee constructed
its in compliance with the then-existing requirement to maintain continuity of service see 47 C.F.R
system
80.475a 1999 See Amendment of the Commissions Rules Concerning Maritime Communications Third
Memorandum Opinion and Order PR Docket No 92-257 18 FCC Red 24391 22401 23-24 2003
See FTh Report and Order 17 FCC Red at 6699-6700 31 We conclude that allowing incumbent licensees to
continue interest
operating under the terms of their current station licenses will further the public by avoiding
interruption of the services they provide cf Ralph Hailer Letter 23 FCC Red 4714 4716 WTB/PSHSB 2008
declining to adopt interpretation of Section 90.187 of the Commissions Rules that would underprotect incumbents
9See Northeast Utilities Service Company Order DA 09-643 11-12 WTB MD rel Mar 20 2009 As we
noted in that decision we expect incumbent AMTS licensees to cooperate with geographic licensees in order to
avoid and resolve interference issues This includes at minimum providing upon request sufficient information to
enable geographic licensees to calculate the site-based stations protected contour Id at n.1 citing Fih Report
function of its ERP see 47 C.F.R 73.699 Figs lO-lOc but the power limit for sitebased AMTS stations in the
rules and on their licenses is based on transmitter output power rather than ERP see 47 C.F.R 80.21 5h5 and
determining stations ERP requires additional information such as antenna gain and line loss See Amendment of
the Commissions Rules Concerning Airport Terminal Use Frequencies in the 450-470 MHz Band of the Private
Land Mobile Radio Services Report and Order WT Docket No 02-318 20 FCC Rod 1966 1970 2005 citing
Amendment of Part 90 of the Commissions Rules and Policies for Applications and Licensing of Low Power
Operations in the Private Land Mobile Radio 450470 MHz Band Report and Order WT Docket No 01-146 18
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Dennis Brown Esq
Request for Clarification of Sections 80385 and 80.2 15
Second you request that we clari that ship station that is transmitting with an output power of
fifty watts pursuant to Section 80.2 15i1-2 of the Commissions Rules is permitted to operate with an
ERP of up to thirty-six wafts We agree with this interpretation Section 80.2 15 provides
ship station must have transmifter output not exceeding 25 watts and an
wafts are made only by radio command from the controlling coast stations and
output power is 25 wafts or less when external radio commands are not present
Although Section 80.2 15i expressly authorizes only an increase in transmitter output power under the
specified circumstances and not an increase in ERP it is evident that the Commission contemplated
corresponding increase in ERP Interpreting the rule to limit ERP to eighteen wafts even when the
station is operating with fifty wafts TPO would defeat the Commissions purpose in allowing the
exceptions to the general twenty-five waft TPO limit.2 We accordingly clarify Section 80.215i as
requested concluding that ship station transmitters operating with transmitter output of
power fifty
watts pursuant to that rule may have an ERP of up to thirty-six wafts during such operation
Act of 1934 as amended 47 U.S.C 154i 155d and Section 1.2 of the Commissions Rules 47
See Amendment of Parts 81 and 83 of the Commissions Rules to Allocate Spectrum for an Automated Inland
Waterways Commuilcations System TWCS along the Mississippi River and Connecting Waterways
Memorandum Opinion and Order Gen Docket No 80-1 88 FCC 2d 678 685 24686 28 1981 noting that the
proponent of the rule Waterway Communications Systems Inc Watercom expressly asked that the Commission
authorize ship station transmitter power be increased to maximum of 50 watts provided the power is
automatically reduced to produce an ERP not exceeding 18 watts within the grade contour of protected
television station and explaining that Watercom requests that the rules be revised to allow ship transmitters to
exceeding 18 watts when the vessel is in the grade contour of protected television station
12
See Id at 688 36 Accordingly we will amend the rules substantially as requested by Watercom to permit
ship station transmiters to utilize maximum output power of 50 watts provided power is
automatically
reduced to an ERP not exceeding 18 watts wherever it has not been specifically shown that television reception
within the grade contour is unlikely to be affected
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Dennis Brown Esq
Request for Clarification of Sections 80.385 and 80.215
C.F.R 1.2 the request filed by Maritime Communications/Land Mobile LLC on December 18 2008 15
This action is taken under delegated authority pursuant to Sections 0.131 and 0.331 of the
Scot Stone
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Before the
COMPANY
To Modify License for Station WQEJ7 18
license Call Sign WQEJ7 18 to add facilities at six locations in southwestern Connecticut Southbury
based co-channel AMTS Station WQA2 16 New York New York filed petition to dismiss or deny the
NUSCO application alleging that NUSCOs proposal fails to provide Station WQA216 adequate
interference protection.2 On October 18 2007 PSI filed an application to modify its license for Station
WQA2 16 to change the location of the licensed transmitter from the North Tower of the World Trade
Center WTC to Times Square.3 Petitions to deny the PSI application were ified by NUSCO and
below we grant NUSCOs
Foundation Skybridge.4 For the reasons set forth and
Skybridge Spectrum
Skybridges petitions and will dismiss PSIs modification application We also deny PSIs petition and
will grant the NLJSCO application with respect to the Greenwich and Norwalk sites and dismiss it as
2See PSI Petition to Dismiss or Deny filed June 22 2007 PSI Petition On July 16 2007 NUSCO filed an
opposition NUSCO Opposition to Petition to Dismiss or Deny filed July 16 2007 NUSCO Opposition PSI
filed reply on July 27 2007 PSI Reply to Opposition to Petition to Dismiss or Deny filed July 27 2007 PSI
Reply
FCC File No 0003202834 filed October 18 2007 amended December 2007 PSI Application
4NUSCO Petition to Deny Modification filed November21 2007 NUSCO Petition Skybridge Petition to
Deny Modification filed November 23 2007 Skybridge Petition Because the PSI application appeared on
public notice on October 24 2007 see Public Notice Rep No 3537 released October 24 2007 petitions to deny
were due November 23 2007 See 47 C.F.R .939a2 On November 24 2007 Skybridge submitted an
Erratum and Amendment to its
petition which sought to supplement the petition by adding declaration setting
forth additional facts Because the Erratum and Amendment was filed after the petition to deny was due the
additional information is untimely and has not been considered See e.g Amendment of the Commissions Rules
Concerning Maritime Communications Third Memorandum Opinion and Order PR Docket No 92-257 18 FCC
Rcd 24391 24397 14 2003 recon dismissed Order on Further Reconsideration 23 FCC Rcd 329 WTB MD
2008 recoti pending Maritime CommunicationsfLand Mobile LLC Order 21 FCC Red 8794 8795 n.15 WTB
PSCID 2006 recon denied Order on Reconsideration 22 FCC Rcd 4780 WTB MD
2007 recon and review
pending PSI filed an opposition to the petitions on December 2007
PSI Opposition to Petitions to Deny filed
December 2007 PSI Opposition NUSCO filed reply on December 17 2007 NUSCO Reply to
Oppositions to Petitions to Deny filed December 17 2007 NUSCO Reply
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moot with respect to the Southbury Redding Monroe and Bridgeport sites
conuuunications similar to cellular system for tugs barges and other maritime vessels5 and also
phone
may provide service to units on land In 2002 the Commission adopted geographic area licensing
approach for AMTS stations.7 Under Section 80.385b1 of the Commissions Rules geographic
licensee that locates facilities within 120 kilometers of co-channel site-based incumbent must provide at
least 18 dB protection to the site-based licensees 38 dBu signal level contour.8 Site-based licensees may
operate fill-in transmitters without separate authorization provided that the fill-in sites predicted
interference contour is filly encompassed by the composite interference contour of the licensed
transmitters9 and may modify their licenses provided that the modification does not extend the systems
The six sites proposed in the NUSCO application are within 120 kilometers of the
technical analysis indicating that the proposed operations would provide the required degree of
interference protection.11 NUSCO had to make certain assumptions regarding Station WQA2 16s
technical parameters given the destruction of the WTC on September 11 2001 12 In the alternative
NUSCO argued that PSIs license for Station WQA2 16 should be deemed to have canceled automatically
pursuant to Section 80.49a3 of the Commissions Rules3 because the station was never placed into
operation4 or if the station was placed into operation that the license should be deemed to have
canceled automatically pursuant to Section .955a3 of the Commissions Rules5 due to permanent
discontinuance of operations in light of the destruction of the WTC.6
See Amendment of Parts and 80 of the Commissions Rules Applicable to Automated Maritime
Telecommunications Systems AMTS First Report and Order CEN Docket No 88-372 FCC Rcd 437437
1991
6See ManTEL Inc and Mobex Network Services LLC Report and Order WI Docket No 04-257 22 FCC Rcd
8971 8974-78 114-10 2007 recon pending
See Amendment of the Commissions Rules Concerning Maritime Communications Second Memorandum
Opinion and Order and Fj/ih Report and Order PR Docket No 92-25 17 FCC Rcd 6685 6696 24 2002
Pub/ic Coast Fifth Report and Order
47 C.F.R 80.385b1
9See 47 C.F.R 80.475b
See Pub/ic Coast Fifth Report and Order 17 FCC Rcd at 6701 34
See NUSCO Application Exhibit Southwest Connecticut Coast Station Location NUSCO Location Exhibit
Attachment Analysis of Interference Potential in the 217 MHz Band preparcd by UTC Spectrum Services March
23 2007 NUSCO Jnterfcrcncc Analysis
2See NUSCO Location Exhibit at NUSCO Interference Analysis at 2-3 AMTS site-based incumbents are
expected to cooperate with geographic licensees in order to avoid and resolve interference issues Cf Pub/ic Coast
F/h Report and Order 17 FCC Rcd at 6704 39 This includes at minimum providing upon request sufficient
information to enable geographic licensees to calculate the site-based stations protected contour
47 C.F.R 80.49a3
See NUSCO Location Exhibit at 2-5
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engineering study utilizing technical parameters for Station WQA216 different from NUSCOs
assumptions resulting in larger predicted contour indicating that NUSCOs proposed Greenwich and
Norwalk sites would not afford Station WQA2 16 the required degree of interference protection.17 PSI
permanently discontinued as evidenced by PSIs construction of temporary fill-in sites and its efforts to
secure space on Freedom Tower which is being constructed on the WTC site.9
While the NUSCO application was pending PSI sought to modify its license for Station
WQA2 16 to change the location of the licensed transmitter to Times Square where PSI currently operates
fill-in transmitter PSI submitted an engineering study indicating that the proposed modification would
not extend Station WQA2 16s service area.2 In opposition to the PSI application NUSCO reiterated the
arguments it raised previously -- that PSI relies on incorrect parameters that overstate the contour of WTC
site and alternatively that PSIs license for Station WQA216 was already terminated for failure to
construct or for pennanent discontinuation of operation.2 The Skybridge petition references the
On January 11 2008 NTJSCO filed separate application to modifj its license for
See PSI Petition at PSI Reply at 3-5 8-9 On August 2007 the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
Mobility Division Division directed PSI pursuant to Section 308b of the Communications Act of 1934 as
amended 47 U.S.C 308b to provide additional information regarding its efforts to reconstruct Station WQA2 16
on Freedom Tower See Letter dated August 2007 from Scot Stone Deputy Chief Mobility Division Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau to Susan Cooper President PSI PSI responded on September 2007 providing
documentation of communications beginning in 2005 between PSI and the entity administering Freedom Tower
antenna issues See Letter dated September 2007 from Audrey Rasmussen Esq Counsel for PSI to Stana
Kimball Mobility Division Wireless Telecommunications Bureau PSI Letter NUSCO filed reply on
September 11 2007 On September 21 2007 PSI filed rebuttal NUSCO filed surrebuttal on October 2007
Material in the reply rebuttal and surrcbuttal going beyond the matters in the Mobility Divisions letter has not
been considered Contrary to NUSCOs assertion the Divisions narrow inquiry letter did not initiate fbrther
round of pleadings related to the issues raised in the NIJSCO application See NIJSCO Surrebuttal at
20
See PSI Engineering Statement at 1-2 The Division requested that PSI accordingly supplenent its petition to
deny NUSCOs modification application to indicate whether PSI believed that NUSCOs proposed operations met
the co-channel interference requirements with respect to PSIs proposed Times Square location See Electronic mail
that NUSCOs
asserting proposed operations would cause impermissible interference to PSIs proposed Times
Square location NUSCO filed an opposition on December 2007 PSI filed reply on December 13 2007
21
See NUSCO Petition at 2-6
22
See Skybridge Petition at Given that we must address the issues in the context of NUSCO petition we need not
address P51s contention that Skybridge lacks standing See PSI Opposition at n.l Skybridge also requests that
the undersigned official not participate in the present matter due to his previous advising Paging Systems Inc on
matters relating to the PS1J Application in violation of FCC cx parte rules and common fairness Id The
referenced communication NUSCO Location Exhibit Attachment Exhibit which predated the PSI application
by more than two years discussed PSI fill-in site and did not address the construction or operational status of the
WTC facility and was promptly provided to Skybridges principal Nor does Skybridgc explain how common
fairness requires recusal The test for recusal in an adjudicatory proceeding on the ground of bias or the
appearance of bias is whether disinterested observer may conclude that decisionmaker has in some measure
adjudged the facts as well as the law of case in advance of hearing it Liberty Productions Order 16 FCC Red
18966 189731162001 quoting Metropolitan Council of NAACP Branches FCC 46 F.3d 1154 1164-65 D.C
Cir 1998 Skybridge has made no such showing Consequently we deny its
request that the undersigned official
not in the
participate present matter
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Station WQEJ7 18 to add only the Southbury Redding Monroe and Bridgeport sites i.e the four sites to
which PSI did not object.23 The application was granted on April 2008.24 Therefore we will dismiss
the above-captioned NUSCO application as moot with respect to those four sites and consider it only
Discussion Construction of Station WOA2 16 PSIs original application and the license
for Station WQA2 16 indicate that the antenna was located on the WTC antenna mast In support of its
assertion that the station was never placed into operation NUSCO presents evidence that PSI did not have
access to the WTC antenna mast.25 PSI responds that the station was constructed on the WTC roof rather
than on the antenna mast.26 NT.JSCO questions this assertion because PSI presented only declaration by
its construction agent and no documentary evidence.27 NUSCO also
argues
that if the station was
constructed other than as licensed it should be deemed not to have been constructed.28
Under the present circumstances where documentary and other evidence that could more
definitively establish the facilitys construction vel non no longer exists due to circumstances beyond the
licensees control we are reluctant to hold that an authorization automatically terminated at some point in
the past and should therefore be deleted from our licensing database9 Therefore while the evidence
proffered by PSI is less than overwhelming we conclude based on the record before us that PSI
constructed station on the WTC roof We also agree with PSI3 that such construction sufficiently
conformed to the licensed parameters that the station should be deemed to have been constructed.31
Permanent discontinuance of operation The WTC facility has not operated since
September 11 2001 NUSCO argues that as consequence the license for Station WQA2I has
the operation will be deemed to have pennanently discontinued NUSCO nonetheless argues that
regulatory parity requires that AIvITS licensees not be permitted to discontinue operations for longer
23
FCC File No 0003282861 filed January 11 2008
24
See Letter dated April 2008 from Scot Stone Deputy Chief Mobility Division Wireless Telecommunications
255ee NUSCO Location Exhibit Attachments Educational Broadcasting Corporation EBC petition to deny
PSI application stating that EBCs niaster lease for the WTC antenna mast permitted use only by broadcasters and
that PSI was thus precluded from installing an antenna there 11 affidavit of Frank Oraybill chief engineer for the
broadcaster responsible for the WTC antenna mast stating that PSI never constructed on the WTC antenna mast
27
See NUSCO Opposition at 12-13 NUSCO also notes that the construction agentis PSI affiliate Id at 13
Id at 12
WTB
29
See e.g Cuniulous Communications Corporation Order 18 FCC Red 11449 11450 6-7 PSPWD
2003 offd Memorandum Opinion and Order 19 FCC Red 15631 WTB PSCID 2004
PSI Reply at
31See e.g Bay Ventures Order 17 FCC Red 8166 8771-72 19 WTB CWD PRB 2002 fifteen to thirty-five
percent discrepancy in antenna height is not sufficient to warrant license termination for failure to construct PSI
nonetheless remains responsible for promptly correcting the technical infonnation in the Commissions licensing
database
32
See NUSCO Location Exhibit at 5-8 NUSCO Opposition at 12-16
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periods than licensees in other services.35 NUSCO also contends that PSIs failure to attempt to relocate
the licensed location until 2007 reflects an abandonment of the license and that PSI cannot claim to
intend to resume operation at the same location due to continuing uncertainty regarding the site.36 We are
10 Instead we agree with PSI37 that it would be inappropriate to retroactively and without
notice apply to Part 80 stations the defmition of permanent discontinuance set forth in other rule parts
While we agree with NUSCO that Part 80 licensees may not cease operations indefinitely without the
license terminating for permanent discontinuance38 we conclude that the lack of Part 80 definition
requires us to evaluate claims of pennanent discontinuance on case-by-case basis That PSI did not
immediately seek to modify its authorization to relocate the licensed site can be explained by the fact that
the rules permit AMTS licensees to operate fill-in stations.39 In addition the record demonstrates that PSI
has exercised due diligence in its efforts to secure space on Freedom Tower.4 We conclude that the
evidence before us sufficienfly demonstrates that the discontinuance of operation is not yet permanent
11 Station WOA2 16 contour As noted above an AMTS geographic licensee that locates
facilities within 120 kilometers of co-channel site-based incumbent must provide at least 18 dB
protection to the site-based licensees 38 dBu signal level contour41 and site-based licensees may modify
their licenses only if the modification does not extend the systems composite service area in any
direction.42 Thus we must consider the WTC facilitys contour in order to detennine whether NUSCOs
proposed sites afford adequate protection to Station WQA21 and whether PSIs proposed relocation
expands the stations service area That consideration has been complicated in this matter by the fact that
12 NUSCO and PSI disagree about the WTC facilitys technical parameters as set forth in
See PSI Petition at PSI Letter at We clarilS however that whether station is in operation is determined
with respect to the licensed facility operation of fill-in sites does not render operative an inactive licensed
transmitter See Revision of Part 22 and Part 90 of the Commissions Rules to Facilitate FutureDevelopment of
Paging Systems Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration and Third Report and Order WT Docket
No 96-18 14 FCC Rcd 10030 10055jj35 1999
40See PSI Letter Exhibits and demonstrating ongoing negotiations with the Freedom Tower property
site
management company regarding the availability
41
See 47 C.F.R 80.385b1
42
See Public Coast F/1h Report and Order 17 FCC Rcd at 6701 34 We reject PSIs suggestion that license
modification shift the service contour so long the total area of coverage does not increase See PSI
may as
beyond its
existing contour See NUSCO Reply at The purpose of restricting the site-based incumbent to its
licensed contour is to prohibit any modifications that impair the rights of the geographic licensee See Public Coast
Fih Report and Order 17 FCC Rcd at 6701 34 Permitting site-based AMTS incumbent to exchange covered
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The differences in antenna height above ground and transmission line loss reflects that NUSCOs analysis
assumes that the station was located on the WTC antenna mast while as discussed above we conclude
that it was located on the WTC roof.45 With respect to the other parameters however verification is
difficult because PSI did not identify the equipment make and model numbers In particular PSIs
claimed insertion losses for the combiner and filter of 1.31 dB appears to be unrealistically low yielding
an unreasonably high ERR We believe that NUSCOs estimated insertion loss of 8.5 dB is reasonable
Consequently we have recalculated PSIs predicted contour for Station WQA216 utilizing the higher
insertion loss This results in contour smaller than that claimed by PSI but larger than that suggested by
NUSCO
13 PSI modification application By PSIs own admission the predicted contour for its
proposed Times Square site just barely avoids exceeding its proffered WTC contour.46 When the WTC
contour is recalculated as discussed above the predicted Thnes Square contour exceeds it Consequently
we will dismiss PSIs modification application because it impermissibly seeks to extend the systems
service area.47
interference contour for NUSCOs proposed Greenwich and Norwalk sites impennissibly overlap the
WTC contour only in small portions of Westchester Nassau and Suffolk Counties.48 When the WTC
contour is recalculated as discussed above the predicted Norwalk contour clearly meets the interference
protection criteria of Section 80.385b1 any overlap and of the Greenwich contour appears to be de
minitnis Consequently we will grantNUSCOs application with respect to the Greenwich and Norwalk
sites
15 Gonclusion We conclude that PSIs proposed Times Square site would expand the
It follows from this conclusion that if the Times Square fill-in transmitter currently operates with the technical
parameters set forth in the PSI modification application its interference contour exceeds the predicted interference
contour of the WTC site Therefore PSI must promptly modifS its Times Square operations in order to comply with
Section 80.475b
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service area of Station WQA216 Consequently we grant the petitions of NUSCO and Skybridge and
will dismiss PSIs modification application We also conclude that NUSCOs proposed Greenwich and
Norwalk sites substantially meet the interference protection criteria of Section 80.3 85bl We
therefore deny in part PSIs petition and will grant NUSCOs modification application
Communications Act of 1934 as amended 47 U.S.C 154i and Section 1.939 of the Commissions
Rules 47 C.F.R 1.939 that the petitions to dismiss or deny filed by Northeast Utilities Service
Company and Skybridge Spectrum Foundation on November 21 2007 and November 23 2007
respectively ARE GRANTED and application FCC File No 0003202834 SHALL BE DISMISSED
Systems Inc on June 22 2007 IS DENIED and application FCC File No 0003026497 SHALL BE
GRANTED with respect to locations 29 Greenwich and 31 Norwalk and DISMISSED AS MOOT
with respect to locations 27 Southbury 28 Redding 30 Monroe and 32 Bridgeport consistent with
18 This action is taken under delegated authority pursuant to Sections 0.131 and 0.331 of the
Scot Stone
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Before the
In the Matter of
MARITIME COMMUNICATIONS/LAND
MOBILE LLC
ORDER ON RECONSIDERATION
declaratory ruling interpreting two rules governing Automated Maritime Telecommunications System
AMTS operations We have before us two petitions for reconsideration one filed by Maritime
Communications/Land Mobile LLC MC/LM and one filed jointly by Warren Havens Envirorimentel
LLC Intelligent Transportation Sc Monitoring LLC and Skybridge Spectrum Foundation collectively
Havens2 each seeking reconsideration of Letter Ruling by the Mobility Division Division Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau.3 For reasons discussed below we deny both petitions for reconsideration
Background Section 80.215 of the Commissions Rules sets forth the AMTS transmitter
power limits Coast stations are limited to fifty watts transmitter output power TPO4 with an additional
limit5 of one thousand watts effective radiated power ERP for certain coast stations.6 Ship stations
generally are limited to twenty-five watts TPO and eighteen watts ERP7 but Section 80.215i permits
for Reconsideration and Comments Erratum Copy filed May 2009 Havens Petition MC/LM filed an
opposition Maritime Communications/Land Mobile LLC Opposition to Petition for Reconsideration filed May
21 2009 MC/LM Opposition
Specifically stations with an antenna height of 61 meters or less that are more than 169 kilometers from Channel
13 television TV station or more than 129 kilometers from Channel 10 TV station See 47 C.F.R 80.2l5h1
80.2 15il
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Section 80.385b1 of the Commissions Rules sets forth the co-channel interference
protection that AMTS geographic area licensees must afford site-based incumbents Generally
geographic licensee must locate its stations at least 120 kilometers from co-channel site-based incumbent
stations but shorter separations are permitted if at least 18 dBu protection will be provided to the site-
In 2008MC/LM asked the Division to clarify Sections 80.385bl and 80.215i With
respect to Section 80.385bl MC/LM requested that the Division clarify that for
purposes
of
calculating site-based stations predicted 38 dBu contour the site-based station should be assumed to
operate with one thousand watts ERP irrespective of its actual ERP The Division denied this request
concluding that the Commission intended for an AMTS geographic licensee to provide interference
protection to co-channel site-based licensee of the basis of the latters actual BRP The Division
observed that the AMTS co-channel interference protection standard was based on the standard for the
spectrally adjacent MBz 220 MHz service and that the Commission has stated that the 38
22 0-222 dBu
contours of incumbent 220 MHz stations are to be calculated on the basis of their actual rather than
theoretical maximum operating parameters2 The Division further noted that adopting MC/LMs
interpretation of Section 80.385bl would run counter to the goal of promoting efficient spectrum use
because it could foreclose AIvITS geographic licensees from providing service even in areas that were not
With respect to Section 80.2 15i MC/LM requested that the Division clarify that ship
station operating with TPO of fifty watts pursuant to Section 80.2 15i is
permitted to operate with an
ERP of up to thirty-six watts.14 The Division so clarified the rule agreeing that Section
80.215i expressly authorizes only an increase in under the specified circumstances and not an
increase in ERP it is evident that the Commission contemplated corresponding increase in ERP.15
21d citing Amendment of Part 90 of the Commissions Rules to Provide for the Use of the 220-222 MIz Band by
the Privatc Land Mobile Radio Service Third Report and Order Fifth Notice of Proposed Rule Making PR Docket
No 89-552 GN Docket No 93-252 PP Docket No 93-253 12 FCC Rcd 10943 11026 174 1997
at 4136 n.6 The Division also observed that assuming that site-bascd incumbent AMTS stations are
operating with one thousand watts ERP would underprotect stations not subject to the BRP limit that are operating
with higher ERP Id at 4136 The Division Ibrther noted that basing AMTS geographic licensees interference
protection obligations on the site-based stations actual operating parameters was consistent with recent Division
decision in licensing matter Id citing Northeast Utilities Service Company Order 24 FCC Rcd 3310 WTB MD
2009 NUSCO Order recon pending MC/LM faults the Divisions reliance on the NUSCO Order inasmuch as
the question of how to calculate site-based incumbents predicted 38 dBu contour was not contested in that case
See MC/LM Petition at The Division did not rely on the NUSCO Order rather it only noted that the NUSCO
Order and Letter Ruling were consistent in this regard There is no reason to believe that the Division would have
resolved MC/LMs declaratory ruling request any differently in the absence of the NUSCO Order
See Letter Ruling at 4137 citing Amendment of Parts 81 and 83 of the Commissions Rules to Allocate
Connecting Waterways Memorandum Opinion and Order Gen Docket No 80-1 88 FCC 2d 678 685 24 686
28 1981 The Division reasoned that interpreting Section 80.215i as limiting ERP to eighteen watts even when
the ship station is permitted to operate with fifty watts TPO would defeat the Commissions purpose in allowing
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Discussion MC/LM seeks reconsideration of the Divisions first holding that AMTS
geographic licensees need only provide cochannel interference protection on the basis of incumbent site-
based licensees actual ER rather than an assumed ER of one thousand watts First MC/LM contends
that the Divisions is based on misplaced reliance on the 220 MHz rules6 The Division
interpretation
did not itself MHz rules Rather the Division correctly noted that the Commission
rely on the 220
that we abandon the use of actual ER for determining co-channel interference protection Indeed the
Division directly addressed this issue pointing out that AMTS site-based licensees are expected to
cooperate with geographic licensees in avoiding and resolving interference issues and that this obligation
requires at minimum that the site-based licensee provid upon request sufficient information to enable
inconsistent with the statutory mandate for equal treatment of licensees in the same service regardless of
whether tbe licenses were obtained though auction or other means.2 MC/LM contends that the
Divisions interpretation of Section 80.385bl effectively permits AMTS geographic licensees but not
AMTS site-based licensees to operate with an ERP of one thousand watts notwithstanding that Section
80.215 does not differentiate between geographic and site-based licensees.2 We disagree Section
Divisions interpretation of how to calculate an incumbents predicted 38 dBu contour for purposes of co
channel interference protection pursuant to Section 80.3 85b1 As discussed above that interpretation
is based on the Commissions decision to protect site-based incumbents existing operations rather than
7See Letter 24 FCC Rcd at 4135 Amendment of thc Commissions Rules Concerning Maritime
Ruling citing
Communications Second Memorandum Opinion and Order and Pfih Report and Order PR Docket No 92-257 17
FCC Red 6685 6700 312002 AMTS sh RO AMTS geographic licensees should adhere to the co-channel
interference protection standard that is used in the adjacent 220-222 MHz band on recoil Third Memorandum
Opinion and Order 18 FCC Rcd 24391 2003 MC/LM argues that the paragraph cited by the Division read in its
entirety reflects that the Commissions concern was to protect incumbent licensees from geographic licensees and
not vice versa and therefore supports MC/LMs position See MC/LM Petition at That both Section
80.385b1 and the cited paragraph address concern over interference from geographic licensees to site based
incumbents is evident and the Division suggested nothing to the contrary MCILM infers from the Commissions
statement in the referenced paragraph that incumbent licensees should be permitted to operate under the terms of
their current licenses an intent to protect incumbents on the basis of an ERP of one thousand watts Jd at We
conclude however that the Commissions concern was to avoid disruption of existing AMTS service rather than to
indefinitely preserve an incumbent licensees ability to expand its facilities to the maximum permitted ERP See
AMTS 5th RO 17 FCC Rcd at 6699 31 allowing incumbent licensees to continue operating under the terms of
their current station licenses will further the public interest by avoiding interruption of the services they provide
6701 34 prohibiting incunibents from rnodiing their licenses in any manner that extends the service area
8See MC/LM Petition at 6-7 AMTS site-based licenses authorize maximum power based on TPO MC/LM
asserts that in contrast to the situation in the 220 MHz service geographic AMTS licensee would not be able to
ascertain the protected area of site-based AMTS station if the protected area is based on actual ERP rather than the
9See Letter Ruling 24 FCC Rcd at 43136 n.9 citing NUSCO Order 24 FCC Red at 331 12 citing AMTS 5h
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protecting the maximum possible contour We accordingly deny the MC/LM petition for reconsideration
Havens seeks reconsideration of the Divisions second holding that ship stations
operating with an output power of fifty watts pursuant to Section 80.215i may operate with an ERP of
up to thirty-six watts to the extent that the holding is applicable to land mobile units.22 Havens argues
that power limits established for the maritime service are not appropriate for land mobile radio
operations3 We note however that Section 80.123e specifically provides that transmitter power for
land mobile units associated with AMTS coast stations shall be set in accordance with the limits set in
Section 80.2 15 for ship stations.24 This forecloses any argument that Section 80.215i should be
construed to apply differently to land mobile units.25 We accordingly deny the Havens petition
Conclusion and Ordering Clauses We conclude that the Division properly interpreted
Section 80.385b1 as specifying that geographic AMTS licensee locating station within 120
kilometers of co-channel site-based AMTS station must make showing that at least 18 dB protection
will be provided to the site-based stations predicted 38 dBu signal level contour as detennined by
reference to the site-based stations actual operating ERP rather than an assumed ERP of one thousand
watts We also conclude that the Divisions clarification that AMTS ship stations operating with
transmitter power output of fifty watts under the conditions set forth in Section 80.215i may exceed
eighteen watts ERP applies equally to land mobile stations associated with an AMTS coast station We
therefore deny the petitions for reconsideration
Communications Act of 1934 as amended 47 U.S.C 154i 405 and Section 1.106 of the
Commissions Rules 47 C.F.R 1.106 the Petition for Partial Reconsideration filed by Maritime
Communications/Land Mobile LLC on May 2009 and the Petition for Reconsideration and
Comments Erratum Copy filed on May 2009 by Warren Havens Environmentel LLC Intelligent
11 This action is taken under delegated authority pursuant to Sections 0.131 and 0.331 of the
Scot Stone
22
See Havens Petition at 2-3
23
Id at According to Havens more refined rules are required for todays land mobile radio systems with for
example higher power levels in rural areas than in urban areas and separate standard for maritime service along
coastlines and major waterways Id
24
See 47 C.F.R 80.123e
25
As Havens and MC/LM both acknowledge any party who believes that the rules governing TPO and/or ERP
limits for land mobile units authorized under AMTS licenses should be n3odiflcd can file
petition for rulemaking to
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EXHIBIT 4a
Second Amended Complaint
Document3
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Berkeley CA 94704
510.841.2220
December 2008
Co-controllers of
your alleged validly constructed and maintained AMTS licensed stations for the
AMTS A-Block spectrum in the greater New York City metropolitan area Call
Sign WRV374 station location 14 15 18 25 33 40 on the FCCs ULS the
Alleged NYC Stations and the NYC Stations License and of other alleged
AMTS stations and station licenses together with the Alleged NYC Stations and
the NYC Stations License the Alleged Stations and the Stations Licenses
Summary
This is further demand prior to legal action in addition to pending court action
of your NYC Stations License and your other Stations Licenses that have automatically
terminated under FCC rules -- and for all Stations Licenses for which you do not submit
said cancellation notices--
given to me for the Foundation and the LLCs defmed below as your co-channel AIvITS
licensees of your Alleged NYC Stations and the other Alleged Stations
have requested both of the above in the past as evidenced herein including in the
Exhibits To be clear if you do not now do the above then intend to have the Foundation
and Supporting LLCs defined below which manage take appropriate legal action to
obtain compliance with the FCC rules that are violated and to seek damages caused by the
past and ongoing violations of said rules This is in addition to claims currently filed in
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Communications Act
In this regard in recent months and weeks business opportunities have arisen for
the Foundation and the LLCs in the greater New York City area and other parts of the
United States which require planning and use of AMTS A-block stations with theft
respective AMTS A-block licenses in those areas One of the opportunities involves
spectrum lease under FCC rule 1.9010 discussed below These opportunities are being
blocked and damaged by your willful continued violation of FCC rules described herein
The damages are in the millions of dollars and other damages cannot be measured
economically These economic and other damages will or may become irreparable soon if
you do not comply with the demands of this letter by the date set forth above
Further in this regard as noticed to you at the end of year 2007 see EXHIBIT
below the LLCs again plan this year by no later than December 30 2008 to donate and
assign to the Foundation additional AMTS A-block spectrum including in the New York
City region and including within the radio service and radio interference contours that you
allege before the FCC see footnotes II and 14 below for your Alleged NYC Stations jf
you do not comply with the demands of this letter by the date set forth above you will
cause irreparable malor harm to the donor LLCs and the Foundation and the Foundation
Preliminary Information
principal party you are familiar with the fact that am the President and controlling
ii Capitalized terms used herein that are not defined herein have meanings
defined in the rules of the Federal Communications Commission that apply to the Station
and the Station license Also you and your refer to Maritime Communications/Land
Mobile LLC MCLM and to all parties that have control in that
company or are
AIMTS Consortium LLC in fact did donate and assign to our Foundation at the end of
year 2007 B-block AMTS spectrum in the New York City region within your alleged
radio service contour and radio interference contour of your Alleged NYC Station The
LLCs did not assign at that time any A-block AMTS spectrum since
you did not respond
and your claims of the Alleged Stations encumbered and damaged the planed donation
assignment The just noted 2007 B-block donation assignment is shown in FCC records
In fact the donor LLC suffered the major damages that noted in Exhibit below as
determined in part by the professional appraisal required for the donors LLC income tax
filing in which it claimed this donation for tax benefit Similar damages to the LLCs were
caused by your lack of response and lack of turning back in invalid Stations Licenses on
the block
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controlled by that company and those entities predecessors in interest including entities
with names Mobex Regionet and Watercom and others perpetuating the fraud and
deliberate violations of law involved indicated herein not excluding alleged professional
you of intended assignments to the Foundation at the end of year 2007 of certain AMTS A-
block spectrum as shown in EXHIBIT hereto This donation assigmnent was from
AMTS Consortium LLC with which you are familiar e.g see Exhibits hereto out of its
AMTS geographic license holdings in the nation In addition as you know other LLCs
by donations the Foundation and that also hold
that manage that also support charitable
AMTS A-block and/or B-block geographic licensed spectrum throughout the nation except
for areas around the Great Lakes include Telesaurus 1/PC LLC and Intelligent
Transportation Monitoring Wireless LLC This demand notice to you is on behalf of the
Foundation and the just listed LLCs the LLCs
above and further described below and to its facts and arguments including but not limited
to those related to 80.70a You have not complied in any form or fashion but instead
have frustrated the purposes of that and related rules including 80.385h and At
the start of the Exhibits is list of the Exhibits and short descriptions of each including
The further attempt in this letter is not required prior to the above-indicated
new legal action but by the attempt seek to mitigate damages reduce litigation expense
and provide further summary record for said action
The arguments related to 80.70a center around your Alleged Stations that are all site-
based licensed stations on the AMTS A-block that have any possible service or
interference contour in any of the areas within the LLCs geographic AMTS A-block
licenses However the request extends also to all other Alleged Stations since all of the
Alleged Stations are in areas in which the LLCs hold FCC licensed spectrum including
AMTS among other spectrum with which they may and do plan to compete with you and
your Alleged Station operations and ii for the reason given in the footnote herein that
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Part
First as demanded herein you should without further delay turn in to the
FCC for cancellation your invalid Station Licenses that automatically terminated due to
your failure to construct operate andor maintain them under FCC time deadlines and
independently under other rule requirements including but not limited to interconnection
Evidence among much other evidence of which you are aware that you did
not under said FCC rule requirements construct operate
and maintain the Alleged
Stations and thus that they automatically terminated includes the evidence shown in
EXHIBIT re your not reporting the stations as constructed and in operation to the FCC
under the rule requirements and with the required form and details and EXHIBIT re
your not reporting stations to the FCC-related Universal Service Fund and your not paying
the fees due.2
However if
you continue to refuse to turn in the invalid Station Licenses
and instead continue to maintain them before the FCC and the market and your
competitors including the Foundation and the LLCs you must comply with the following
demand to stop violating the noted FCC rules and comply with their requirements
You are aware or under FCC rules are obligated to be aware of FCC
all
rules pertaining to your Alleged Stations and Station Licenses These include FCC Part
evidence others
Other your filing and
indirect includes maintaining for years
among
with the FCC many deliberately false reports of station consiruction and then your filing
of deliberately false applications to the FCC which were granted for renewing AMTS
station licenses for stations that had long since been terminated for failure to construct by
the construction deadline which you later admitted ii your failure to provide to us as
required in FCC rules shown in this letter of any proof or even any alleged details of your
Alleged Stations iii other evidence partly in FCC records and iv evidence including in
testimony in legal proceeding cases in which you including your predecessors in interest
were parties including but not limited to your Chicago station where Shorenstein the
building owner said you had no lease and your transceiver equipment was removed and
your stations in the Pacific Northwest where Day stated that you did not pay him sums due
under contract that you stations were not fully constructed under FCC rule requirements
and that he terminated their operations In addition you do not market your stations as
available to the public except nominally in few cases Instead you now list all your
Stations Licenses and geographic AMTS spectrum licenses as well as up for sale with
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80 rules that apply to the AMTS radio service Part 80 of 47 CFR including the
80.5 Definitions
Coast stations which transmit on the same radio channel above 150
MHz must minimize interference by reducing radiated power by
decreasing antenna height or by installing directional antennas Coast
This rule applies to AMTS which is coast station radio service that is above 150
MHz on its face and as noted by the FCC full Commission in decision denying your
coast stations does not apply to AMTS stationsp9 but because RegioNet
has not explained how Section 80.70 prevents AMTS licensees from using
The FCC did not in the Final Rules set forth in the above-noted RO change 80.70 to
When the FCC created rules for geographic AIvITS licenses it extended in 80.479b
the application of 80.70a from site-based AMTS stations including your Alleged
Stations to geographic licensed stations including those of the Foundation and the LLCs
Section 80.70a creates obligations and rights for the co-channel same frequency coast
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licensee ha notice must be retained until the claim or complaint has been
satisfied or barred by statute limiting the time for filing suits upon such
claims
between its spectrum lessee and any other spectrum lessee or licensee or
authorized spectrum user
b1iii above as to interference issues
require you to provide to me in various FCC proceedings in which you were the primary
or primary party on the other side you have refused to supply to me for the Foundation
and the LLCs any said information on your Alleged NYC Stations and other Alleged
Stations.7 Again for example see the EXHIBITS hereto and footnote below
Section 80.70a station details which as the rule states are for reduction of co-channel
above 1.9010
This makes relevant youre a-block Alleged Stations to the LLCs B-block geographic
licenses planned stations as well as to the LLCs A-block geographic licenses planned
stations
Indeed you have not even reported any such station to the FCC under requirements of
rules as actually constructed and placed into operation Such reports would have provided
some station details including which specific site-based transmitters were actually
In most of the many FCC proceedings related to your Alleged Stations and Stations
Licenses involving dozens of pleadings for the LLCs and Foundation raised facts and
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Application as partially reflected on the license You are required to have kept and
maintained from the commencement of each of the Alleged Stations station logs as
shown in the above cited rule 80.409 Station and its subsumed term transmitter is
the subject and pivotal defined term in principal FCC rules relevant to this letter as they
existed in the lime periods relevant to your Alleged Stations including rules on required
construction including 1.946 including subsection 80.475a and 80.49a3
required operation including 80.70a and the related 80.385b and required and
automatic termination for failing to timely and properly construct or maintain including
1.955a2 and 1.946c and 80.49a3-- each discussed herein
Not acting to supply the details of your Alleged NYC Stations and other
Alleged Stations causes violation of FCC rule 80.70a since it orders that same-channel
stated technical means and must also if within 150 miles and to be clear the
Foundation and LL Cs plan stations at this time and always have on AMTSA block
spectrum within 150 miles of all of your Alleged Stations with spec j/lc urgency in some
areas involving the paragraphs in boxes above consider an arrangement on time sharing
In addition such non action also frustrates the purposes and functions of and the
Foundations and LLCs rights under 80.385b to space stations under the noted F50
50 technical showing method.8
law with respect to you not providing proof of construction and operation to maintain valid
stations and licenses and presenting evidence that exits to the contrary partial result of
those filings was the 2004 FCC AIvITS site-based station audit in which you admitted
that
many of the stations you formerly stated to the FCC were validly constructed and kept
in operation and even renewed were never constructed at all and thus automatically
terminated at the construction deadline All you had to do at any time to dispose of much
of the matters raised in the noted pleadings and proceedings was to show standard proof
of construction and operation including the details called for in 80.70a Most of those
supply the details as result of this letters demand in the alternative said violation will be
clear
The details required under 80.70a would allow the noted site-spacing engineering
maintaining fraudulent claim to Alleged Stations and station licenses would refuse to
provide as required under said law to another co-channel same frequency coast station
licensee the details of and proof of its Alleged Stations Fraud is not permitted under the
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Alleged Stations including the Alleged NYC Stations technical attributes as the rule
describes possible decreases in radiated power and antenna height directional antenna
patterns and time sharing and on my Foundations and LLCs side involves the same with
regard to our planned stations indicated above including those within 150 miles of your
Alleged Stations including your Alleged NYC Stations We stand ready to make and abide
by those rule requirements and to demonstrate to you our station operations in compliance
with proof to the degree you hold and qualify to hold any valid stations under FCC
rules
you refuse to provide any station details of your Alleged Stations including actual transmit
power antenna height antenna type including directionality and pattern for particular
Accordingly you have been and remain in violation of FCC rule 80.70a9 that is pivotal
for the Foundation and the LLCs to proceed with the particular imminent business and
charitable opportunities indicated above in the paragraphs in boxes and for proceeding
with their other business nationwide with their AMTS A-block licenses and for reasons
noted above their B-block licenses also Your violations block and damage these
documentation of
Communications Act or FCC rules and deliberate frustration offair competition by such
refusal is not allowed under antitrust law and the Communications Act
While FCC rule 80.385b applies to the permissible spacing of geographic AMTS
station from an actual valid incumbent same-channel or co- channel site-based AMTS
station 80.70a also applies with regard to its stated requirements that all same-channel
immediately and as the FCC has often stated in decisions regarding interference and
spectrum efficiency Also for the Foundation and the LLCs to determine how to plan
construct and operate AMTS geographic A-block stations in proximity to your Alleged
NYC Stations and your Alleged Other Stations the same information required under FCC
rule 0.70a is required
That is stations that have not automatically terminated for failure to timely and
properly construct and put into operational service including under .955a2 or ii for
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and with the required information of all your Station Licenses other than those for
the Alleged Stations for which you satisfy item immediately above.1
And or Rules Requiring Reporting and Fees to the Universal Service Fund
You are aware or under FCC rules are obligated to be aware of all FCC
rules pertaining to your requirements as AMTS station licensees and operators to submit
to the Universal Service Fund required reports and related fees The applicable rules are
limited to
Waterway Communication System LLC and Mobex Network Services LLC of Decision
Order found
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You have maintained before the FCC your NYC Stations License and other
Stations Licenses for over decade and always described these in FCC filings as public-
coast commercial common carrier stations and operators extensively serving the mobile
maritime radio service market along as you wrote virtually all of the US Pacific Ocean
and US Atlantic Ocean coastlines Hawaii Puerto Rico the Mississippi River waterways
and other inland waterways the Gulf Coast waterways much of the Great Lakes
You have failed to file the required Forms 499-A contribute amounts
due and otherwise comply with the rules and purposes stated in item above of this
footnote below given the number of your Alleged Stations it is impossible that you
would not need to contribute to the Universal Service Fund as you currently state on your
2008 Form 499-A See Exhibit below unless you were not actually operating your
Alleged Stations and providing CMRS services as you have indicated you are not doing in
Request for Review See footnote 13 here Thus actions noted in the preceding
your your
indicates that the Stations Licenses including the NYC Stations License are automatically
terminated under FCC rules for lack of construction operation and/or permanent
maintenance under the FCC rules indicated above including for not being operated as
CMRS if existing and operated at all and must be returned to the FCC for cancellation
However if you do not return said stations for cancellation for the reasons
just stated but maintain them as valid then under the noted FCC rules you must file full
and complete Forms 499-A and other filings required for purposes of the Universal Service
Fund and submit all required fees late penalties and other sums due
Based on the worksheet and rules by which c/c minimis exemption is allowed from
making contributions you could not meet the exemption if you actually were operating
your Alleged Stations as you assert to the FCC and to me which is that you are operating
the Alleged Stations as per your granted FCC applications that resulted in the Stations
Licenses in which you stated you needed and would operate all of the A-block and B-
block spectrum Even if you were operating one of your Alleged Stations in this fashion
with typical customer loading and revenues you would not meet this exemption
13
See the decision cited in footnote 13 above The required 499-A filings must state the
indicated on the Form 499-A itself and in applicable rules That includes States in which
any of your Alleged Stations has an alleged service contour For example you have an
alleged station in the State of Connecticut but do not list that State on the Form 499-A
and you also dont list other States where you have Alleged Stations and radio service
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documentation of
And for any Stations Licenses for which you do not submit such
cancellation filings evidence of curing the FCC rule violations involving the filings
just indicated above in this Part that you were required to submit in the past but
which you did not ever submit for purposes of the Universal Service Fund including
under 54.706 cited above and related rules
Sincerely
Warren Havens
President
Attachments
Appendix
Four Exhibits
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maintained as follows
The log must be kept in an orderly manner The required information for the
particular class or category of station must be readily available Key letters or abbreviations
may be used if their proper meaning or explanation is contained elsewhere in the same log
prohibited Corrections may be made only by the person originating the entry by striking
out the error initialing the correction and indicating the date of correction
The station licensee and the radio operator in charge of the station are
from the date of entry and when applicable for such additional periods as required by the
following paragraphs
Logs relating to distress situation or disaster must be retained for three years
logs must be retained until the licensee is specifically authorized in writing to destroy
them
iii Logs relating to any claim or complaint of which the station licensee has
notice must be retained until the claim or complaint has been satisfied or barred by statute
this section must be kept at the principal radiotelephone operating location while the vessel
is
being navigated All entries in their original form must be retained on board the vessel
for at least 30 days from the date of entry Additionally logs required by paragraph of
this section must be retained on board the vessel for period of years from the date of the
by the operators signature OFF DUTY must be entered by the operator being relieved
The date and time of making an entry must be shown opposite the entry
Failure of equipment to operate as required and incidents tending to unduly
Entries must be made giving details of all work performed which may affect the
proper operation of the station The entry must be made signed and dated by the operator
who supervised or performed the work and unless the operator is regularly employed on
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hill-time basis at the station must also include the mailing address class serial number
and expiration date of the operator license
Entries must be made about the operation of the antenna tower lights when the
radio station has an antenna structure requiring illumination by part 17 of this chapter
together with the frequency used and the position of any vessel in need of assistance
Coast stations which maintain watch on 500 kllz must enter the time this
watch is
begun suspended or ended
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Dennis Brown
The following information is taken off of the current MCLM licenses on the FCC
ULS database
Dennis Brown
8124 Cooke Court Suite 201
Manassas VA 20109-7406
Email d.c.brown@att.net
The following is form the firms website and information the firm provided
today by phone
Anne Hays Hartman
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Addressed parties
liable along with the entity for the direct and other damages noted herein and
that are related and are liable along with the entity for the direct and other
As you know the LLCs manage listed below including AMTS Consortium LLC
own FCC geographic licenses for AMTS B-block spectrum in most areas of the
nation and for A-block spectrum in lesser but still major parts of the nation
In many of these geographic areas MCLM claims to have validly obtained and
constructed AMTS A-block and/or B-block incumbent site-based licenses that also
have never been permanently discontinued and which thus encumber restrict the
use of the geographic licenses for the same spectrum blocks in said MCLM
site-based licenses within and near their service-coverage contours MCLM
Encumbered Spectrum
As you know my LLCs contest these MCLM claims and we believe that there is
sufficient evidence in the record of which you have been made aware that your
claims are false and that your AMTS licenses are invalid including in the
While your claims if invalid cause various damages each day to my LLCs in
particular cases your perpetuation of the invalid claims can cause particular
irreversible damages at given points in time One such case in explained below
My LLCs and their members have determined that they will donate by the end of
this year 2007 certain non-controlling interests in the LLCs and br certain
geographic spectrum held by the LLCs that is subject to MCLM Encumbered
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in the US to reduce accidents pollution congestion fuel consumption and
also for which said donors will obtain under IRS rules valuable tax
deductions based on the fair-market value of the donations at the time of the
donations
MCLMs invalid claims regarding the MCLM Encumbered Spectrum will cause major
devaluations and damages to the legitimate fair market valuation of these
donations to be made by the end of this year 2007 While the reasons for said
devaluation and damages are for the most part obvious they include among
others reduction in the
geographic-licensed AMTS B-block spectrum that is not
utility and value of the adjacent not-encumbered AMTS geographic spectrum and
of our companion 900 MHz spectrum that our LLCs hold nationwide for use in ITS
clear invalidly encumbered spectrum and other reasons The damages will be to
both the donor LLCs and their members and the recipient nonprofit
perform the following request by the date noted below and other additional
damages may be multiple of that sum My LLCs and their members and possibly
also the nonprofit organization involved intend to pursue these initial and
these other damages against MCLM as defined above to the full extent possible
under law
Thus on behalf of my LLCs and its members making these donations request
and demand that MCLM immediately notify the FCC with copy to me that MCLM
turns in to the FCC for immediate cancellation all of the invalid AMTS licenses
mitigate the damages to said donations and to said donors and recipient
entities
persons cced in this email who as you know assist me and my LLCs in FCC and
other legal matters then will assume that MCLM elects to not take the actions
requested and demanded above and in any case it will thereafter be beyond the
time that in
t1 an ns by MCLM will mitigate damages since
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all of the described donations must and will be concluded immediately after said
is causing to the LLCs manage or any other matter In addition by the above
do not imply that MCLM has not already caused damages to the donations
donors and recipient in this year and with regard to previous periods of time
Sincerely
Is
Warren Havens
President
Telesaurus --
www.telesaurus.com
Berkeley California
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Addressed parties
PM Pacific Time to make every attempt to mitigate the damages noted below
Warren Havens
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The following infonnation is taken off of the current MCLM licenses on the
Manassas VA 20109-7406
Email d.eirown@attnet
Anne Hays Hartman
The following is form the firms website and information the firm provided
today by phone
Anne Hays Hartman
000DIN MACBRIDE SQUERI DAY LAMPREY LLP
Addressed parties
Communications Land Mobile LLC but also all persons and entities that are
related and are liable along with the entity for the direct and other damages
noted herein and ii the entity Mobex Network Services LLC along with all
persons and entities that are related and are liable along with the entity for
As you
know the LLCs manage listed below including AMTS Consortium
LLC own FCC geographic licenses for AMTS B-block spectrum in most areas of
the nation and for A-block spectrum in lesser but still major parts of the
nation In many of these geographic areas MCLM claims to have validly obtained
and constructed AMTS A-block and/or B-block incumbent site-based licenses that
also have never been permanently discontinued and which thus encumber
restrict the use of the geographic licenses for the same spectrum blocks
in said MCLM site-based licenses within and near their service-coverage
As you know my LLCs contest these MCLM claims and we believe that there
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your claims are false and that your AMTS licenses are invalid including in
While your claims if invalid cause various damages each day to my LLCs
in particular cases your perpetuation of the invalid claims can cause
explained below
My LLCs and their members have determined that they will donate by the end
obtain under IRS rules valuable tax deductions based on the fair-market
MCLMs invalid claims regarding the MCLM Encumbered Spectrum will cause
these donations to be made by the end of this year 2007 While the reasons
for said devaluation and damages are for the most part obvious they include
spectrum the loss of use of the encumbered spectrum in time which also
reduces the utility and value of the adjacent not-encumbered AMTS geographic
spectrum and of our companion 900 MHz spectrum that our LLCs hold nationwide
for use in ITS wireless networks paired with our AMTS spectrum frequently
described in public FCC filings and in our
public website the cost of legal
action to clear invalidly encumbered spectrum and other reasons The damages
will be to both the donor LLCs and their members and the recipient nonprofit
perform the following request by the date noted below and other additional
damages may be multiple of that sum My LLCs and their members and possibly
also the nonprofit organization involved intend to pursue these initial and
these other damages against MCLM as defined above to the full extent
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request and demand that MCLM immediately notify the FCC with copy to me
that MCLM turns in to the FCC for immediate cancellation all of the invalid
AMTS licenses with these clearly identified the FCC Cancellation Notice
in order to mitigate the damages to said donations and to said donors and
entities
recipient
persons cced in this email who as you know assist me and my LLCs in FCC
and other legal matters then will assume that MCLM elects to not take the
actions requested and demanded above and in any ease it will thereafter be
beyond the time that in this year any such actions by MCLM will mitigate
damages since all of the described donations must and will be concluded
and is causing to the LLCs manage or any other matter In addition by the
above do not imply that MCLM has not already caused damages to the
donations donors and recipient in this year and with regard to previous
periods of time
Sincerely
Is
Warren Havens
President
Telesaurus --
www.telesaurus.com
Telesaurus
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AMTS Consortium LLC
Telesaurus Holdings GB LLC
Intelligent Transportation Monitoring Wireless LLC
Skybridge Spectrum Foundation nonprofit corporation
Berkeley California
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Maritime Communications/Land Mobile LLC MCLM holds and alleges to operate AMTS
licensed stations in and around Connecticut but is not listing Connecticut on its 2008 Form 499-
MCLM did not file Form 499-A prior to April 2008 per FCC online records even though it
has held AMTS licenses since 2005 and its predecessor-in-interest Mobex Network Services
LLC Mobex did not list Connecticut on its Form 499-A Thus both MCLM and Mobex
have not listed Connecticut as jurisdiction where either one has been providing
telecommunications services
Call Sign Station Location and Station City and State of MCLM Alleged New York New
Jersey and Connecticut Stations
MCLM April 2008 Form 499-A from FCC online Form 499-A database see
hp//fial1foss.fcc.gav/cgb/form499/499a.cfm
Search Results from the FCCs Form 499-A online database as of 11/1/07 showing that
Mobex April 2006 Form 499-A from FCC online database printed 11/1/07
Note As witnessed by the below records MCLM filed its first Form 499-A per
the FCCs online database on April 2008 even though MCLM has held AMTS
station licenses since 2005 and the Form 499-A is required to be filed annually
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within the coverage period must notify the Commission by filing FCC Form 601 The
notification must be filed within 15 days of the expiration of the applicable construction
begun using some but not all of the authorized transmitters the notification must show
to which specific transmitters it applies
Note The undersigned parties to the instant letter have conducted research
of FCC paper records and online databases and have not found records of
Form 60 is having been filed by Maritime Communications/Land Mobile
LLC to comply with the above rule section for the vast majority of its
AMTS stations
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Certificate of Service
to be served by placing into the USPS mail system with first-class postage affixed and into the
Columbus MS 39701
MORRISTOWN NJ 07962-1991
Also via email to ggraham@grahamcurtin.com
Manassas VA 20109-7406
Also via email to d.c.browniatt.net
Jeffersonville IN 47130
Also via email to john.reardonmcIinllc.com
/s/ Warren Havens is the electronic version Signature on original and on file
Warren Havens
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Berkeley CA 94704
510.841.2220
December 2008
your alleged validly constructed and maintained AMTS licensed stations for the
AIVITS B-Block spectrum in the greater New York City metropolitan area Call
Sign WQA21 the Alleged NYC Station and the NYC Station License and
of other alleged AMTS stations and station licenses together with the Alleged
NYC Station and the NYC Station License the Alleged Stations and the
Stations Licenses
Summary
This is further demand prior to legal action in addition to pending court action
of your NYC Station License and your other Stations Licenses that have automatically
terminated under FCC rules and for all Stations Licenses for which you do not submit
said cancellation notices--
given to me for the Foundation and the LLCs defmed below as your co-channel AMTS
licensees of your Alleged NYC Station and the other Alleged Stations
have both of the above in the past as evidenced herein including in the
requested
Exhibits To be clear if you do not now do the above then intend to have the Foundation
and Supporting LLCs defined below which manage take appropriate legal action to
obtain compliance with the FCC rules that are violated and to seek damages caused by the
past and ongoing violations of said rules This is in addition to claims currently filed in
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court and pending against you related to your violation of FCC rules and the
Communications Act
In this regard
__ recent months
___ and weeks
--
business opporturuties have arisen for
United States which require planning and use of AMTS B-block stations with their
respective AMTS B-block licenses in those areas One of the opportunities involves
spectrum lease under FCC rule 1.9010 discussed below These oyportunities are being
blocked and damaged by your willful continued violation of FCC rules described herein
The damages are in the millions of dollars and other damages cannot be measured
economically These economic and other damages will or may become irreparable soon if
you do not comply with the demands of this letter by the date set forth above
--_____ __ _____
Further in this regard as noticed to
you at the end of year 2007 see EXHIBIT
below1 the LLCs again plan this year by no later than December 30 2008 to donate and
assign to the Foundation additional AMTS B-block spectrum including in the New York
City region and including within the radio service and radio interference contours that you
allege before the FCC see footnotes 11 and 14 below for
your Alleged NYC station jf
you do not comply with the demands of this letter by the date set forth above you will
cause irreparable major harm to the donor LLCs and the Foundation and the Foundation
Preliminary Information
principal party you are familiar with the fact that am the President and controlling
ii Capitalized terms used herein that are not defined herein have meanings
defined in the rules of the Federal Communications Commission that apply to the Station
and the Station license Also you and your refer to Paging Systems Inc and to all
parties that have control in that company or are controlled by that company and others
perpetuating the fraud and deliberate violations of law involved indicated herein not
controlling person in the Foundation and its donor LLCs defined below and to those
entities
AMTS Consortium LLC in fact did donate and assign to our Foundation at the end of
year 2007 B-block AMTS spectrum in the New York City region within your alleged
radio service contour and radio interference contour of your Alleged NYC Station This is
shown in FCC records And in fact the donor LLC suffered the major damages that
noted in Exhibit below as determined in part by the professional appraisal required for
the donors LLC income tax filing in which it claimed this donation for tax benefit
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you of this intended assignment at the end of year 2007 as shown in EXHIBIT hereto
Also this donation assignment was from AMTS Consortium LLC with which you are
familiar e.g see Exhibits hereto out of its AMTS geographic license holdings in the
nation In addition as you know other LLCs that manage that also support by charitable
donations the Foundation and that also hold AMTS B-block geographic licensed spectrum
throughout the nation except for areas arQund the Great Lakes include Telesaurus VPC
LLC and Intelligent Transportation Monitoring Wireless LLC This demand notice to
you is on behalf of the Foundation and the just listed LLCs the LLCs
iv attach hereto documents that demonstrate that have in the
past attempted
to obtain from you information needed as the basis of your compliance with FCC rules
described in the Summary above and further described below including but not limited
to 80.70a You have not complied in any form or fashion but instead have frustrated
the purposes of that and related rules including 80.385b and At the start of the
Exhibits is list of the Exhibits and short descriptions of each including notes on your
The further attempt in this letter is not required prior to the above-indicated
new legal action but by the attempt seek to mitigate damages reduce litigation expense
and provide further summary record for said action
Part
First as demanded herein you should without further delay turn in to the
FCC for cancellation your invalid Station Licenses that automatically terminated due to
your failure to construct operate andor maintain them under FCC time deadlines and
independently under other rule requirements including but not limited to interconnection
actual public common carrier service continuity of multi-station radio coverage etc.
Evidence among much other evidence of which you are aware that you did
not under said FCC rule requirements construct operate and maintain the Alleged
Stations and Thus that they automatically terminated includes the evidence shown in
EXHIBIT re your not reporting the stations as constructed and in operation to the FCC
under the rule requirements and with the required form and details EXHIBIT re your
not reporting the stations to the FCC-related Universal Service Fund and your not paying
the fees due and EXHIBIT re sworn statement from the site
manager of your Alleged
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NYC Station WNET and FOIA documentation from the Port Authority of NY-NJ which
owned the building that you did not ever construct said station.2
However if
you continue to refuse to turn in the invalid Station Licenses
and instead continue to maintain them before the FCC and the market and your
competitors including the Foundation and the LLCs you must comply with the following
demand to stop violating the noted FCC rules and comply with their requirements
You are aware or under FCC rules are obligated to be aware ofall FCC
rules pertaining to your Alleged Stations and Station Licenses These include FCC Part
80 rules that apply to the AMTS radio service Part 80 of 47 CFR including the
80.5 Definitions
Coast stations which transmit 9n the same radio channel above 150
MHz must minimize interference by_reducing radiated power by
decreasing antenna height or by installing directional antennas Coast
Other indirect evidence includes among others your filing and maintaining for years
with the FCC many deliberately false reports of station construction and then your filing
of deliberately false applications to the FCC which were granted for renewing AMTS
station licenses for stations that had long since been terminated for failure to construct by
the construction deadline which you later admitted ii your deliberately false repeated
reports to the FCC of construction of your Alleged NYC Station at the top of the WNET
controlled antenna mast at the old One World Trade Center and alleged operation up to 9-
11-2001 which falsity was revealed to the FCC in the NUSCO proceeding uhder
Application FileNo 0002147762 when you eventually admitted when caught in the lie
by the proof from WNBT and the Port Authority that you actually did not construct and
operate on the top of that mast by changing your story to assert with no proof that you
constructed and operated somewhere on the rooftop of that building iiiyour failure to
provide to us as required in FCC rules shown in this letter of any proof Or even any
alleged details of your Alleged Stations and other evidence partly in FCC records
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licensee has notice must be retained until the claim or comulaint has been
satisfied or barred by statute limiting the time for filing suits upon such
claims
This rule applies to AMTS which is coast station radio service that is above 150
MHz on its face and as noted by the FCC full Commission in In the Matter of
Amendment of the Commissions Rules Concerning Maritime Communications PR Docket
No FOURTHREPORTAND ORDER AND THIRD FURTHER
92-257 RM-9664
NOTICE OFPROFOSEDRULEMAKUTG FCC 00-370 15 FCC Rcd 22585 2000 FCC
LEXIS 6084
22 RegioNet also seeks ruling that Section 80.70 of our Rules which
coast stations does not apply to AMTS stationsji but because RegioNet
has not explained how Section 80.70 prevents AMTS licensees from using
new technology or offering additional services we find this
request to be
The FCC did not in the Final Rules set forth in the above-noted RO change 80.70 to
make it not applicable to AIvITS as RegioNet asked nor at any time thereafter to this day
has there been any change to this rule including its applicability to AMTS site-based and
geographic stations Also as you know and as this RO lists at the end you submitted
the application of 80.70a from site-based AMTS stations including your Alleged
Stations to geographic licensed stations including those of the Foundation and the LLCs
Section 80.70a creates obligations and rights for the co-channel same frequency coast
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knowledge about the lessees activities and facilities that affect its
spectrum
spectrum user...
b1iii above as to interference issues
However despite the preceding 80.70a and other rules and my requests
for the information they require you to provide to me you have refUsed to supply to me
for the Foundation and the LLCs any said information on your Alleged NYC Station and
other Alleged Stations Again for example see the EXHIBITS hereto
Application as partially reflected on the license You are required to have kept and
maintained from the commencement of each such alleged station station logs as shown in
the above cited rule 80.409 Station and its subsumed term transmitter is the
subject and pivotal defined term in principal FCC rules relevant to this letter as they
existed in the time periods relevant to your Alleged Stations including rules on required
construction including 1.946 including subsection 80.475a and 80.49a3
required operation including 80.70a and the related 80.385b and rcquired and
automatic termination for failing to timely and properly construct or maintain including
By refUsing to supply the details of your Alleged NYC Station and other
Alleged Stations you are violating FCC rule 80.70a since it orders that same-channel
public coast including AMTS licensees fljj arrange to minimize interference by the
Section 80.70a station details which as the rule states are for reduction of co-channel
the Foundation and the LLCs to proceed with the spectrum lease opportunity noted above
with regard to interference control obligations and rights including under the rule cite
above 1.9010
Indeed you have not even reported any such station to the FCC under requirements of
rules as actually constructed and placed into operation Such reports would have provided
some station details including which specific site-based transmitters were actually
stated technical means and must also if within 150 miles and to be clear the
Foundation and LLCs plan stations at this time and always have on AMTS block
spectrum within 150 miles of all of your Alleged Stations with specc urgency in some
areas involving the paragraphs in boxes above consider an arrangement on time sharing
In addition you are also frustrating the purposes and functions of and the Foundations
showing method.8
Alleged Stations including the Alleged NYC Stations technical attributes as the rule
describes possible decreases in radiated power and antenna height directional antenna
patterns and time sharing and on my Foundations and LLCs side involves the same with
regard to our planned stations indicated above including those within 150 miles of your
Alleged Stations including your Alleged NYC Station We stand ready to make and abide
by those rule requirements and to demonstrate to you our stations operations in compliance
with proof to the degree you hold and qualify to hold any valid stations under FCC
rules
frequencies Accordingly you have been and remain in violation of FCC rule 80.70a9
that is pivotal for the Foundation and the LLC to proceed with the particular imminent
maintaining afraudulent claim to alleged stations and station licenses would refuse to
provide as required under said law to another co-channel same frequency coast station
licensee the details of and proof of its alleged stations Fraud is not perm itted under the
Communications Act or FCC rules and deliberate frustration offair competition by such
refusal is not allowed under antitrust law and the Communications Act
While FCC rule 80.385b applies to the permissible spacing of geographic AIVITS
station from an actual valid incumbent same-channel or co- channel site-based AMTS
station 80.70a also applies with regard to its stated requirements that all same-channel
means described which also greatly increases full and efficient use of the subject same
spectrum efficiency Also for the Foundation and the LLCs to determine how to plan
construct and operate AMTS geographic B-block stations in proximity to your Alleged
NYC Station and your Alleged Other Stations the same information required under FCC
rule 80.70a is required
proceeding with its other business nationwide with their AMTS B-block licenses Your
violations block and damage these opportunities businesses and licenses
documentation of
10
That is stations that have not automatically terminated for failure to timely and
properly construct and put into operational service including under .955a2 or ii for
permanent discontinuance including under .955a3
As shown in
your response letter dated 1.16.2007 at the end of EXHIBIT hereto you
falsely stated to me that you NYC Station was constructed and operated as listed in the
FCC license records of that station namely as you originally submitted in your application
for that license That was false for reasons noted noted in footnote For that reason
part
and the others noted in the just referenced footnote including your many false and
fraudulent FCC AMTS license filings which you also ended up admitting in sworn
statements we will not accept any more assertions by you unsupported by evidence
which if
any exists you are required to keep as part of your FCC required station logs
and data as to the required details of your Alleged Stations including the Alleged NYC
Station Further the details in the FCC license records of the Alleged Stations do not
contain the required reports of construction referenced in this letter and subject of
EXHIBIT hereto said reports required you to provide certain station details including the
transmitter frequencies actually in use The FCC license records you refer to in your
1.16.2007 letter noted above are no more than some of the technical information from your
original applications for proposed stations and do not contain details as to actual stations
you were or are operating if any Thus you need to provide the details demanded herein
12
See rules and discussion in Part above
Part
AndJ or Rules Requiring Reporting and Fees to the Universal Service Fund
You are aware or under FCC rules are obligated to be aware of all FCC
rules pertaining to your requirements as AMTS station alleged station licensees and
operators to submit to the Universal Service Fund required reports and related fees The
applicable rules are primarily in 47 CFR Part 54 and include underlining added
limited to
You have maintained before the FCC your NYC Station License and other
Stations Licenses for over decade and always described these in FCC filings as public-
coast commercial common carrier stations and operators extensively serving the mobile
maritime radio service market along as you wrote virtually all of the US Pacific Ocean
and US Atlantic Ocean coastlines Hawaii Puerto Rico and much of the Great Lakes
You have failed to file the required Forms 499-A contribute amounts
due and otherwise comply with the rules and purposes stated in item above of this
Waterway Communication System LLC and Mobex Network Services LLC of Decision
Order found
California
apart possibly from your Alleged Stations in the State of California you do list
on the few 499-A filings you filed but no other States including New York New Jersey
and Connecticut-- your actions noted in the preceding paragraph above are fraudulent
and false and that the other Stations Licenses including the NYC Station License are
automatically tenninated under FCC rules for lack of construction operation and/or
permanent maintenance under the FCC rules indicated above and must be returned to the
However if
you do not return said stations for cancellation for the reasons
just stated but maintain them as valid then under the noted FCC rules you must file full
and complete Forms 499-A and other filings required for purposes of the Universal Service
Fund and submit all required fees late penalties and other sums due
documentation of
And for any Stations Licenses for which you do not submit such
cancellation filings evidence of curing the FCC rule violations involving the filings
just indicated above in this Part that you were required to submit in the past but
which you did not ever submit for purposes of the Universal Service Fund including
under 54.706 cited above and related rules
Based on the worksheet and rules by which de minim/s exemption is allowed from
your Alleged Stations as you assert to the FCC and to me which is that you are operating
the Alleged Stations as per your granted FCC applications that resulted in the Stations
Licenses which you stated you needed and would operate all of the B-block spectrum
in
Even if
you were operating one of your Alleged Station in this fashion with typical
customer loading and revenues you would not meet this exemption
14
See the decision cited in footnote 13 above The required 499-A filings must state the
indicated on the Form 499-A itself and in applicable rules That includes States in which
any of your Alleged Stations has an alleged service contour For example you have
alleged to the FCC that your Alleged NYC Station has FCC-defined and actual radio
Service Company NUSCO in provision of wireless service to end users with AMTS
spectrum in the State of Connecticut You alleged these things in filings in the proceeding
created by your petition to deny the FCC application File No 0002147762 assignment by
AMTS Consortium LLC to NUSCO of B-block AMTS spectrum including in all of the
State of Connecticut
Sincerely
Is
Warren Havens
President
Attachments
Appendix
Six Exhibits
Appendix
maintained as follows
The log must be kept in an orderly manner The required information for the
particular class or category of station must be readily available Key letters or abbreviations
elsewhere the
may be used if theft
proper meaning or explanation is contained in same log
prohibited Corrections may be made only by the person originating the entry by sinking
out the error initialing the correction and indicating the date of correction
Ship station logs must identify the vessel name country of registry and official
The station licensee and the radio operator in charge of the station are
from the date of entry and when applicable for such additional periods as required by the
following paragraphs
Logs relating to distress situation or disaster must be retained for three years
logs must be retained until the licensee is specifically authorized in writing to destroy
them
iii Logs relating to any claim or complaint of which the station licensee has
notice must be retained until the claim or complaint has been satisfied or barred by statute
this section must be kept at the principal radiotelephone operating location while the vessel
is being navigated All entries in their original form must be retained on board the vessel
for at least 30 days from the date of entry Additionally logs required by paragraph of
this section must be retained on board the vessel for period of years from the date of the
by the operators signature OFF DUTY must be entered by the operator being relieved
The date and time of making an entry must be shown opposite the entry
Entries must be made giving details of all work performed which may affect the
proper operation of the station The entry must be made signed and dated by the operator
who supervised or performed the work and unless the operator is regularly employed on
fbll-time basis at the station must also include the mailing address class serial number
and expiration date of the operator license
Entries must be made about the operation of the antenna tower lights when the
radio station has an antenna structure requiring illumination by part 17 of this chapter
All distress or safety related calls transmitted or received must be entrd
together with the frequency used and the position of any vessel in need of assistance
Coast stations which maintain watch on 500 kHz must enter the time this
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SSP LLCs to PSI 12.4.08
wchavensaoI.com jstobaughttelesaurus.com
few corrections are in this second 1.10.07 version shown in red.- WH January 10 2007
Burlingaine CA 94011-4249
Via US mail first class
Washington DC 20036
Via email only to dhill@hallestill.com arasmussen@hallestill.com
Re WQA216 AMTS license listed on 1315 at the old One World Trade Center
Mrs Cooper
See Exhibit which depicts the large TV antenna mast on the old One World Trade Center
Building that is the mast and location that you asserted under oath to the FCC that Paging Systems Inc
AMTS Consortium LLC ACL in clear terms that your assertion is false and that it was in
See Exhibit hereto item marked As wrote in said item if PSI asserted that it
timely constructed and had rights to continue with the Alleged Station for purposes of any protection
under FCC Rule 80.353b the described 18 dB protection the see Exhibit then PSI had
to provide to AMTS Consortium LLC 6QI the details described in said item to enable the
protection to be determined and if those details were not provided to ACL then PSI would waive any
to protection and also to continue to assert of the Alleged Station and the
rights rights any validity
License.2 No protection under the Rule can be asserted calculated or provided without such details
This was in direct oral and written communication between ACL and persons most knowledgable at
Educational Broadcast Corporation licensee of WNET Channel 13 and the Port Authority of New York-New
Jersey In addition see Exhibit hereto
The Rule see Exhibit provides for defined protection of valid site-based AMTS stations station is
defined in FCC Rule 80.5 as one or more transmitters or combination of transmitters and receivers including
the accessory equipment necessary at one location for carrying on radiocoinmunication services
As shown in Exhibit item PSI responded to said item but did not provide any such
details Thus ACLs position is as stated in Exhibit PSI has waived rights to assert inter alia any
However as you know PSI has continued to this time to assert before the FCC and thus
generally publicly also the validity of the Alleged Station based on alleged valid timely construction
and operation prior to 9-1 1-0 and rights un4er the License to reconstruct station under the License
with protection under the Rule as basis to encumber ACLs use assignment and economic benefits
of B-Block AMTS spectrum in the greater New York City region including in PSIs spurious still-
pending challenge to the assignment of such spectrum in Connecticut to Northeast Utilities Service
Sucb false and assertions by PSI among other PSI actions are the direct cause of major
damages to ACL increasing daily ACL is prepared to pursue direct indirect and punitive damages
against PSI its agents and others responsible.4
In the actions of PSI described herein including the exhibits PSI and its
alleged and actual
controlling owners and officers bear responsibility of all actions by all PSI agents and such agents
provide those details and proof listed in Exhibit placed in box to be clear by the end of January
16 2007
If PSI supplies to ACL those details and proof by January 16 2007 or if by that date PSI in
writing submits the License to the FCC for cancellation with prejudice and provides copy of said
submission to ACL by email and ovemight mail then PSI will substantially mitigate such damages
and such potential FCC fines
Sincerely
Ends
Also you reported construction with the technical specifications .. unchanged from your application and
the application specified 25-watt Neutec base transmitters and antenna height at the top of the WNET antenna
mast which was 389.4 feet above the top floor where radio transmitters were located With very large cable
losses even assuming quality cable and high gain antenna the stations 38 dBu station contour distances see
footnote had there been station would be sinai percentage of what you asserted in your reconsideration
petition to the FCC regarding the ACL assignment to NUSCO See also Exhibit including its Notes
In addition the same acts of PSI and its agents from the evidence are subject to Section 503bX2B of the
Communications Act authorizing FCC fines of up to $120000 for each violation or each day of continuing
violation up to limits
Section 217 of the Communications Ace .. the act omission or failure of any officer agent or other person
acting for or employed by any common carrier or user acting within the scope of his employment shall in
every
case be also deemed to be the act omission or failure of such carrier or user as well as that of the person
2-
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8SF to PSI 12.4.08
alleged to operate the Alleged Station up until 9-11-2001 The below is from
http//91 lresearch.wtc7.netlwtc/info/datahtml Items in boxes blue are added
The World Trade Center consisted of cluster of buildings that occupied single superblock
occupied
Susan Cooper-PSI
to be here on
The North Tower was DOne WTC It is the
alleged
WNET
top of the
distant of the two since this view is from the
controlled antenna mast
Southwest as the author states below
See footnote and
Exhibit hereto
This photograph of the Twin Towers was taken from the southwest preceding in original
Contined
3-
Exhibit Notes
The above-depicted WNET-controlled antenna mast was 389.4 fret above the top
right The mast spire height is 1731.9 ft The PSI ajplication and license states that its
antenna tip is at 1731 feet The top floor was at 1348 ft The mast spire was thus 389.4 feet
above the
top floor
The mast was 360 feet above the roof and heavily used Fox new reported on 9-12-0
see http//www.foxnews.corn/storv/029333425500.html
The 360-foot television mast atop One World Trade Center supports 10 main
Trade Center
station see footnote above The PSI application had the top of the antenna mast height correct
but had the top of the building height incorrect as WNET pointed out in its Petition to Deny.6
Also any such construction and operation on top of such large premier mast on the
largest building in NYC would have been even if allowed which it was not see Exhibit
extremely expensive and certainly well documented insured reflected on corporate tax returns
etc An insurance claim would have been submitted after 9-1 1-0 and documented
The above website page also has like to tenants on the North tower One WTC.is
also given this lists that the radio broadcasters used the top floor Also this list does not mention
The PSI application incorrectly stated that the building top distance measurement of figure
depicted at the top page of the Form 503 application was .1 feet but it was actually see
feet
first link above Based on this incorrect height the application incorrectly stated that there was only 94.6
feet from the of which was same the of
top of
the to the its the as the
building tip proposed antenna top
WNET antenna mast Based on this serious error PSI may have assumed that there would be only modest
loss in the cable run to the antenna but in fact there would be very loss In there is clear
large any case
evidence that PSI never built the station
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Exhibit
2005 Emails in reverse chronological order Emphases added underlining color boxing
13
---Original Message---
From wchavens@aol.com
Sent Thesday March 08 2005 414 PM
To ARasmussen@HallEstill.com Scot Stone
Cc DLMartin@HHLAW.com jstobaughtelesaurus.com
Re PSI AMTS stations in the NYC metro areas
Subject
Mr Stone
address some matters to you below
Ms Rasmussen
Preface First the WTC Station never met FCC rules at the application or construction deadline stage
including due to this always being single-site system Even if this station was constructed by the deadline
with non-token equipment and construction methoth and PSIs single-channel systems are token
single site
system automatically terminated at the construction deadline without fbrther Commission action
due to not meeting the construction requirement of continuity of service which was at the bare minimum
Your email below that you forwarded to me does not provide any details that effectively responds
to my email to you of 3-7-05 which per your placement is at the bottom of this email string
Thus as wrote in that email now assume that Paging Systems Inc PSI has no existing statioa
in the NYC metropolitan area that my LLC ANTS Consortium LLC ACL has to protect
assuming that it becomes the licensee of the AMTS B-block North Atlantic license this email assumes
this
Mr Stones previous email to me in response to my email to him with regard to the Paging Systems
Inc PSP AMTS station license still listed on ULS as at the World Trade Center the WTC Station
clearly indicated that my communications with him regarding the WlC Station was subject to such ex parte
rules and as be noted had taken care of compliance with those rules
In addition as you know PSI and and my LLCs are adverse parties in several restricted
proceedings one being the Petition to Deny of the PSI Form 601 in Auction 57 and other being the
Petition for Reconsideration of the Order denying in large part my petitions to deny Mobexs AMTS
renewal applications which PSI joined and where accepted this joining As you know in these
proceedings am challenging the validity of all PSI AMTS stations in the US including the SVTC Station
including for reasons noted above in the Preface to this email In fact you note to Mr Stone below that
Thus believe that your emails below between yourselves and Mr Stone below that were not copied to
me violate ex parte rules thus strongly object at this time and may take further appropriate action
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If as Mr Stone suggests below PSI applies to the FCC seeking to modi1 the discontinued alleged
former PSI station license at the World Trade Center the WTC Station then upon it being placed on
Public Notice ACL intends file petition to deny based onfacts and law that ACLI believes sustain grant of
such petition
In this regard ACL does not agree with the informal advice Mr Stone provided to you as reflected in the
Sincerely
Warren Havens
President ACL
Mr Stone
As indicated above you advised me that my conununications with you on this WTC Station were subject to
cx parte rules but that had taken care of compliance See above also Yet you have been providing
advice and suggestions to Ms Rasmussen on this matter without copying me see below emails What am
missing here
On behalf of AMTS Consortium LLC do not agree with your advice to Ms Rasmussen with regard to the
continued validity of the PSI station license at the collapsed World Trade Center the WTC Station
including for the purpose of allowing another station to be built within non-determinable signal
contours of the WTC Site these cannot be determined from the WTC Station station ifies or ULS
within an unidentified period of time and due to other facts and circumstances including those
note in the Preface above which as believe you know since you are handling them are in the two
Please let me know which FCC rules you rely upon in regards to that advice provided to Ms Rasmussen
Please see the email from me to Ms Rasmussen of 3-7-05 placed by Ms Rasmussen at the bottom of this
email string For purposes reflected in that email bow can obtain from you or someone else at the FCC
copies of all
paper and electronic documents that relate to this WTC Station Is an FOIA required or even
if not required will it be the method by which am most likely to get IblI information
Sincerely
Warren Havens
President
Original Message---
JW Havens The text below up to the double line is what PSI counsel sent Havens in this
3/8/05 emaiL Her response was simply to forward her cx part communications with Mr Stone
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EXHIBIT
You dont need to make any showing at this time The West Orange site is legitimately authorized under
the license for the WTC site Im just saying that the West Orange site cant be counted toward the
consiruction/operational requirements for the WTC site only the WTC site counts toward that
You cculd modll the license to relocate the licensed site to West Orange Site-based moth are permitted
if they dort expand the existing protected contour But youd be giving up some footprint that you
wouldnt be able to recover later since when you moved the authorized site the part of the footprint that
was covered by WTC but isnt covered by West Orange would default to the geographic license and you
wouldnt be allowed to change the authorized site back to WTC later The only way mod would make
sense is if you definitely arent going to rebuild the WTC site
--Original Message--
Qood Afternoon
Thank you for your response We are in dilemma because we always need to protect WNET and we
wanted to be on the same tower with it but there were too many carriers that had to move after 9/11 and
my client could not get on that tower with WNET in Manhattan The client went over to New Jersey
because of that situation but now we realize that we need to make some type of showing to the FCC -- if it
does not exist in the Commissions eyes Would we need fill application to show that Paging Systems
Inc is in West Orange NJ Would the Commission accept this since it is not accepting any non-
geographic applications any longer If so would we have an issue when we want to again move to the
Thanks for any assistance that you can give in this matter
Audrey
-----Original Message-----
Ms Rasmussen
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As just stated to Mr Havens dont think the station has permanently discontinued so in my view PSI
As fir as the Commission is concerned fill-iris dont exist We dont know where they are when they are
constructed when they discontinue operations We judge compliance with construction and operational
requirements by looking at the licensed facffitv not at fill-ins that maybe operating under the umbrella
any
of the authorization for the licensed facility
---Original Message---
My client wanted me to touch base with you on this What we stated in our Opposition to Petition for
Reconsideration the Application for AMTS License in the Great Lakes Region in Auction No 57 dated
November 30 2004 below remains true The station8 is on the air in West Orange New Jersey The client
wanted me to get confirmation that the Second Memorandum Opinion and Order and Fifth Report and
Order in PR Docket No 92-257 17 FCC Rcd 6685 2002MOO as cited below still
applies to fill-ia
sites and that there is no requirement to have filed any notification with the FCC added
W.H
20 While it is true that PSIs station at the World Trade Center was destroyed on September 112001
PSI is
presently operating fill-in station in New Jersey pending the construction of new structure at that
site
--Original Message-----
From wchavens@aol.com
Sent Saturday February 05 2005 405 PM
To Audrey Rasmussen
Havens This transparently under applicable rules is NOT the licensed station
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SSF to PSI 12.4.08
El
-Original Message-----
From wchavcns@aol.com
Sent Monday March 07 2005 942 PM
To Audrey Rasmussen
Audrey Rasmussen
assuming it is granted the North Atlantic B-block AMTS license must provide any tyne of uroteclion
under FCC rules to any PSI B-block AMTS incumbent station in the New York City greater metropolitan
area
the details of each such station based upon which this asserted protection can be
practically fulfilled including exact coordinates street address height of the transmit
antenna above 2round level PUP and type of antenna including pattern power into the
antenna or power out of the transmitter and all losses to the input terminal of the antenna
all actual transmit and receive freijuencies in operation mobile radios In operation to
maritime and land service and any other details relevant or that believe are relevant
you
under the applicable FCC rules
Please also provide the contact information for the person or entity that manages the antenna site used by
each such PSI station and the person or entity that maintains each such PSI station
will have expert PP site inspector visit this site to confirm the details
III do not hear back from you or another authorized PSI agent by end of this Thursday today is end
of Monday will assume that PSI is not operatinc any site in this area or not any site which is
Also if PSI is actually offering or offering and providing CMRS or other AMTS public service from
any such site in the NYC metro area please let me know who is the local person or entity that is marketing
or otherwise handling this public service and details sufficient to identi this public service
In addition if PSI has any plans to rebuild the alleged former PSI AMTS station on the World Trade
Center building that collapsed on 9-11-2001 which is still listed on ilLS as active please provide those
details to me so that ACL can consider this matter with respect its rights and obligations under FCC rules
Sincerely
Wairen Havens
President
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ExhibitS
Emphases added
The AMTS geographic area licensee must locate its stations at least 120
kilometers from the stations of co-channel site-based AMTS licensees Shorter
signal level contour The site-based licensees predicted 38 dBu signal level
contour shall be calculated using the F50 50 field strength chart for Channels
713 in Sec 73.699 Fig 10 of this chapter with dE correction for antenna
chart for Channels 713 in Sec 73.699 Fig ba of this chapter with dB
correction factor for antenna height differential
The calculation above requires details of the AMTS site-based station See Exhibit item lJ
An FCC Rule Part SO station is defined as follows
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Exhibit Part
The below is from page and of Educational Broadcast Corporation licensee of EBC
WNET TV Channel 13 Petition to Deny the PSI application for an ANTS B-Block station on
the EBC antenna mast on One World Trade Center WNET Petition the PSI Application
This WNET Petition is dated October 18 1993 and is under the signature and declaration of the
Secretary and General Counsel of EBC licensee of WNET The FCC denied the WNET Petition
and granted the PSI Application The WNET Petition is in
the FCC files of WQA216 the ANTS
station license that resulted from the grant of the PSI Application for PSI to construct operate gi
the
top
of the WNET antenna mast which PSI reported to the FCC under oath that it fact
anwhere on the Port Authority antenna mast Futhermore neither EBC nor Fox
Television Stations Inc Fox the licensee of WNYW would in any event
consent to Pagings locating an antenna within their antenna apertures 41
Commission should require.. applicants to determine
EAhihit Part II
The below is from the PSI Applications Amendment Request RE File Nos 871674 signed by
Cooper undated but with the PSI Application PSI asserts it must collocate with PSI to comply
with FCC rules Underlining added Item in bracket added
Item of FCC Form 503 City New Yorlq County New Yorlq State
New Yort
Item 20A WNIBC Fox Television Stations Inc Educational
Broadcasting Corporation
would impose level of interference which was not uniform over the service area
of WNET-T...
Senior Vice President at Fox states that Fox would not consent to the installation of
11
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Exhibit Continued
WHET directly informed ACL that the reason that WHET did not after grant of the PSI
Application have problem with PSI at its facility ie that no practical issues arose not that
WNET changed its position to oppose PSI and deny access to the masfl is
simply because PSI
never constructed anything as stated in the granted Applicgjp and that had PSI attempted it
WHET and the Port Authority could and would not have denied access to the antenna mast as
WHET further directly informed ACL that had PSI or anyone actually transmitted from any 217-
220 MHz station anywhere on top of One World Trade Center it would have detected those
iransmissons and taken approprithe remedial action to protect its Channel 13 broadcasts which
are only slightly below 217 MHz and that there were never any such 217-220 MHz
transmissions detected
WNET further directly informed ACL that well after the FCC granted the PSI Application it
learned that PSI applied to the FCC for an AMTS station license New Jersey
in and that
NWETWNET submitted petition to deny the PSI FCC application that ACL responded from
FCC records prior to that time PSI had informed the FCC that it had already constructed at the
top of the WHET mast to which WHET espondth saying that such PSI construction assertion
was of course false and that may be reason that PSI withdrew its application for the New Jersey
site when WNET opposed it since that contest may have ended lip exposing PSIs false
Thereafter PSI alleged in informal communications with the FCC including those in Exhibit
hereto to have constructed and to be operating fill-in station in New Jersey However under
FCC rules and related rule making Order decisions AMTS fill-in stations are not permitted
unless the licensee has valid licensed station to fill-in under certain limitations and fill-in
station does not in any way count toward meeting construction and ongoing operating
The communications from WHET to ACL noted above and elsewhere in this letter were from
ACL further obtained confirmation in writings from persons most knowledgeable at the Port
Authority of NY-NJ that PSI never obtained the permit required of all entities to use the top of
One World Trade Center for any purpose including placement and operation of radio
transmission station Port Authority records of those permits and other relevant records
survived 9-11-01
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Susan Cooper
Robert Cooper
Paging Systems Inc
Also am copying Mr Eugene Hahm at the Manatt Phelps law firm who
that PSI has been served copy of this email also intend to send hard copy
As you know the LLCs manage listed below including AMTS Consortium LLC
owii geographic licenses for AMTS B-block spectrum in most areas of the
nation In all of these geographic areas except for the Mountain area your
company Paging Systems Inc PSI claims to have validly obtained and
constructed AMTS B-block incumbent site-based licenses that also have never been
permanently discontinued Herein by PSI mean the entity PSI but also all
persons and entities that are related and are liable along with the entity for
As you know my LLCs contest these PSI claims and we believe that there is
sufficient evidence in the record of which you have been made aware that your
claims are fal 5yq4MTS licenses are invalid including your Page 30 of 67
While your claims if invalid cause various damages each day to my LLCs in
particular cases your perpetuation of the invalid claims can cause particular
irreversible damages at given points in time One such ease in explained below
My LLCs and their members have determined that they will donate by the end of
this year 2007 certain non-controlling interests in the LLCs and br certain
obtain under IRS rules valuable tax deductions based on the fair-market value
of the donations at the time of the donations The LLC interests and licensed
spectrum that will be donated involves the geographic AMTS B-block spectrum in
all of the NYC area but also involves geographic AMTS B-block spectrum in many
other areas of the nation where PSI claims to have valid B-block site-based
licenses
PSIs invalid claims to AIVITS B-block spectrum in such NYC area such other
areas of the nation will cause major devaluations and damages to the legitimate
fair market valuation of these donations to me made by the end of this year
2007 While the reasons for said devaluation and damages are for the most part
authorization of the same spectrum the loss of use of the encumbered spectrum
in time which also reduces the utility and value of the adjacent
not-encumbered AMTS geographic spectrum and of our companion 900 Mhz spectrum
that our LLCs hold nationwide for use in ITS wireless networks paired with our
AMTS spectrum as frequently described in public FCC filings and in our public
website the cost of legal action to clear invalidly encumbered spectrum and
other reasons The damages will be to both the donor LLCs and their members
and the recipient nonprofit organization Based on research to date believe
members and possibly also the nonprofit organization involved intend to pursue
these initial and these other damages against PSI as defined above to the full
Thus on behalf of my LLCs and its members making these donations request
and demand that PSI immediately notify the FCC with copy to me that PSI is
turning in to the FCC for immediate cancellation all invalid AMTS licenses the
FCC Cancellation Notice in order to mitigate the damages to said donations
persons cced in this email who as you know assist me and my LLCs in FCC and
other legal matters then will assume that PSI elects to not take the actions
requested and demanded above and in any case it will thereafter be beyond the
time that in this year any such actions by PSI will mitigate damages since all
of the described donations must and will be concluded immediately after said day
and time
causing to the LLCs manage or any other matter In addition by the above
do not imply that PSI has not already caused damages to the donations donors
and recipient in this year and with regard to previous periods of time
PSI has clearly been on notice by the undersigned parties as to PSIs invalid
claims noted above and as to damages those have caused and are causing to the
Sincerely
Is
Warren Havens
President
Telesaurus --
www.telesaurus.com
Telesaurus VPC LLC
AMTS Consortium LLC
Telesaurus Holdiuns GB LLC
5sF tLCs to PSI 12.4.08 Page 32 of 67
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Subject Request to Immediately tum.In invalid licenses to mitigate year-end damages
Date lDecembtjr 28200742216 PM PSI
To Audrsy Rasmussen cARasmussen@HailEst1ll.com DavId Hffl cdavldIamarhilimsncom
Cc ohahm@rnanatt.com bernstelnlaw@earthlink.net Patrlok Richard PRichardNossaman.cem jstobsugh Stobaugh
havens warren.havens@sbcgiobaLnab
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tear-end damages
kddressed parties
PM Pacific Time to make every attempt to mitigate the damages noted below
Sincerely
Warren Havens
Susan Cooper
Robert Cooper
Paging Systems Inc
Also am copying Mr Eugene Hahm at the Manatt Phelps law firm who
demonstrate that PSI has been served copy of this email also intend to
As you
know the LLCs manage listed below including AMTS Consortium
LLC own FCC geographic licenses for AMTS B-block spectrum in most areas of
the nation In all of these geographic areas except for the Mountain area
your company Paging Systems Inc PSI claims to have validly obtained and
constructed AMTS B-block incumbent site-based licenses that also have never
been permanently discontinued Herein by PSI mean the entity PSI but
also all persons and entities that are related and are liable along with the
As you know my LLCs contest these PSI claims and we believe that there is
sufficient evidence in the record of which you have been made aware that
your claims are false and that your AMTS licenses are invalid including your
license for the New York City NYC area
While your claims if invalid cause various damages each day to my LLCs
in particular cases your perpetuation of the invalid claims can cause
explained below
My LLCs and their members have determined that they will donate by the end
also for which said donors will obtain under IRS nies valuable tax
deductions based on the fair-market value of the donations at the time of the
donations The LLC interests and licensed spectrum that will be donated
involves the geographic AMTS B-block spectrum in all of the NYC area but also
involves geographic AMTS B-block spectrum in many other areas of the nation
PSIs invalid claims to AMTS B-block spectrum in such NYC area such other
areas of the nation will cause major devaluations and damages to the
the encumbered spectrum in time which also reduces the utility and value of
900 MHz spectrum that our LLCs hold nationwide for use in ITS wireless
networks paired with our AMTS spectrum as frequently described in public FCC
filings and in our public website the cost of legal action to clear
invalidly encumbered spectrum and other reasons The damages will be to both
th donor LLCs and their members and the recipient nonprofit organization
request by the date noted below and other additional damages may be
multiple of that sum My LLCs and their members and possibly also the
other damages against PSI as defined above to the full extent possible under
law
request and demand that PSI immediately noti the FCC with copy me
to
that Psi is turning in to the FCC for immediate cancellation all invalid AMTS
licenses the FCC Cancellation Notice in order to mitigate the damages to
persons cced in this email who as you know assist me and my LLCs in FCC
and other legal matters then will assume that PSI elects to not take the
actions requested and demanded above and in any case it will thereafter be
beyond the time that in this year any such actions by PSI will mitigate
damages since all of the described donations must and will be concluded
above do not imply that PSI has not already caused damages to the
donations donors and recipient in this year and with regard to previous
periods of time
Sincerely
/5
Warren Havens
President
Telesaurus --
www.telesaurus.com
Telesaurus VPC LLC
AMTS Consortium LLC
Telesaurus Holdings GB LLC
Berkeley California
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From warren.havenssbcg1obal.net
To scot.stonefcc.gov
license WQCP81O for the North Atlantic AMTS area to FCC staff to obtain under the
operational details and proof of alleged fill-in stations of alleged incumbent licensed
station WQA2I held by Paging Systems Inc PSI that is needed for ACLs current
planning of base stations in proximity to New York City the 80.475b Information
Request
smaller and not easy to read please place your copy into larger typeface have had
Mr Stone
Introduction
ACL hereby requests leave to file the above-captioned 80.475b Information Request
as described below
If the
request is granted ACL requests 21 days after grant to file the undersigned
have trip to China for 7-10 days starting next week in relation to ACLs and its
affiliates FCC licenses the World Congress of Intelligent Transportation Systems and
day request
have partly drafted this request to submit to the FCC Secretary and on ULS under the
above-listed two Call Sign ACL requests leave to file it since it is not filing under an
FCC rule section authorizing filings However its need is apparent as ACL will show in
In sum in order for ACL to proceed with its plans to build and operate AMTS B-
block spectrum stations in the greater New York City metro area we need details of all
PSI alleged fill-in stations under the alleged-valid WQA2 16 exact coordinates all
equipment components from which we can calculate ERP transmit antenna height times
of operation modulation type and other details more ftlly given in the filing
Section 80.475b that pertains to AMTS fill-in stations contains provision for the
FCC to require that the site-based licensee supply information details of its fill-in
stations the AMTS licensee must make record of the technical and administrative
information concerning the station and upon request supply such information to the
geographic licensee for the below-noted short spacing Indeed it that that is the
appears
principal reason that for placement of this information-supply provision since primary
role of the FCC after licensing is to regulate co-channels licensees to operate without
harmful interference and to maximize spectrum use and efficiency This is precisely why
thc geographic licensee needs this information where the incumbent licensee will not
supply it Jn the instant case hereby declare under penalty of perjury that have
requested of PSI in writing details of its operations under WQA2 16 for above purposes
and PSI refused to provide such also in writing
fill-in station as you know may be located and operated if among other
requirements its interference contour is within the interference contour of of the licensed
station in AMTS the interference contour is under 80.385b the incumbent 38 dBu
service contour but where the geographic licensee protects that 38 dBu by 20 dB
difference Said licensed stations and fill-in stations contours are based on certain
F5050 formula this formula is not real-life radio-propagation model especially when
used in congested urban area such as New York City with large and densely located
buildings and substantial terrain features also cliffs and hills along the Hudson River
contour than licensed station since the fill-in station may be much closer to said
Without knowing the details ofgflj the licensed station and the fill-in station is is not
possible under FCC rules to know if the fill-in stations are indeed within said
interference contour of the licensed station if not the fill-in stations are not authorized
compliance with 80.385b using the short-space method as noted above protecting the
incumbent 38 dBu with 20 dB or seeking waiver for closer spacing for good cause
For example while the geographic station does not have to protect fill-in station
including one with stronger actual signal strength at the licensed stations interference
must plan its stations accordingly its location type of antenna terrain and building
shielding use of its own fill-in supplement stations etc Field surveys to find fill-in
stations and hope to find their actual maximum operational signals modulations types
etc is not reliable and is also wastefhl as PSI itself suggested in one of its filings in the
Request to Provide Information proceeding noted herein The information must come
directly from the fill-in station operator the licensee by someone direct personal
The filing seek leave to submit presents the above and related and supporting
matters more formally citing relevant FCC rules and precedents and attaching relevant
factual exhibits
ACL is aware of the filings of PSI in relation to the pending 385b Applications of
NUSCO and the related FCC Sept 2007 FCC Request to Provide Information
However no PSI filing in these matters or in other other FCC filing of which ACL is
aware contain the information required by ACL to plan and use its license noted above
FN below
In addition as ACL previously informed FCC staff with copy to PSI ACL has
commenced litigation against PSI in California courts See the ACL 1.65 report dated
8.21.2007 in relation to File No 0002147762 While this will involve in the course of
the case depositions and other factual discovery of PSI and related parties including the
alleged sole owner of PSI Susan Cooper her husband the owner of Touch Tel Port
Authority personnel WNET engineers that handled the mast on the old One World Trade
Center and authorities of the sites of the PSI-alleged fill-in stations associated
with WQA216 etc.--ACL seeks to proceed at this time with planning and subsequent
deployment of stations under WQCP8 10 without relying upon said litigation for the facts
Conclusion
Without grant
of this request and subsequent action under the 80.475b Information
Request ACL will not be able to plan and operate in compliance with FCC rules and in
of
spectrum- and cost- efficient manner under WQCP8 10 in the most important region
PSI would clearly not be prejudiced in any way by grant of this request for leave and
action under the 80.475b Information Request All that is sought is information on PSI
station construction and operations where PSI is required to comply with FCC rules and
document that in company and station files 80.457a for fill-in stations and 80.409
for all stations etc.
Thus for all the above reasons ACL requests timely grant of this request for leave and
Footnote
The matters of this FN amp4fy the needfor the instant 80.475b Information
Request
existing stationand is otherwise unlawfUl and unlawful actions are barred in claims and
fill-in stations for AMTS and other CMRS 12 and 45 in Implementation of Sections
3n and 332 of the Communications Act Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making
FCC Rcd 2863 287 3-74 1994 and iv in relation to said FNPRM see the definitions
Public Land Mobile Service for paging and other services CC Docket No 87-120 FCC
89-15 FCC Rcd 1576 1989 FCC LEXIS 284 65 Rad Reg 2d 1523 Februaiy
15 1989 Released
Thus unless PSI has proof of actual timely construction that includes required
1.955 80.49 etc any fill-in stations even if valid are at least irrelevant or both
Moreover PSI has admitted to not operating any licensed station under WQA2 16 for
over years since at least 9-11-2001 thus its alleged establishment see its response
to the Request to Provide Information of fill-in stations--if that amorphous term is
2I Footnote
The matters of this FN2 amplfy the need for the instant 80.475b Information
Request
In the above-noted NUSCO-related filings by PSI PSI has not submitted required
declaration or affidavit of an officer in PSI as to its baldly alleged construction at an
unauthorized location non-specific location on the enormously large roof of the old
One World Trade Center that could not be the same coordinates as the WNET antenna
Without said permits no construction could have possibly taken place these pennits are
Only an officer in company can have the direct personal knowledge needed as to
whether or not PSI in fact entered into and maintained by payments insurance and other
performance legally binding site lease to use said rooftop and also the permit required
from the Port Authority of New York that owned and controlled the building to
construct radio-station facility on the outside rooftop that is different from the site-use
lease and in the buildings designated inside rooms for radio equipment
Under the Commissions Ellis Thompson and Intennountain decisions only the licensee
and not an agent manager may have ultimate control of the station facility and only
the licensee is responsible ultimately any interference that may occur and for operations
in compliance with FCC rules An agent including PSIs alleged construction agent
Touch Tel cannot have direct personal knowledge of whether or not PSI obtained said
site-use agreements since no agent could have executed them only an officer in PSI
could have Even if Touch Tel obtained site lease and the permit from the Port
Authority unless with the providers authority it sub-let these to PSI PSI did not have
the required ultimate control and responsibility just noted and there is no evidence that
such two-step arrangements were made no evidence of even one step But the point here
is who is able to testify with direct personal knowledge to PSI site-use agreements if
PSI did not produce copies of any such required site-use agreements nor did it even have
any officer swear with direct personal knowledge that PSI obtained them
In addition no officer in PSI even declared what if any actual relation Touch Tel has
Thus even the bald assertions by PSI as to construction and operation at the licensed site
degree is permitted in AMTS service without major mod application from well prior to
Respectfully
Warren Ravens
President
Certificate of Service
Warren Havens certify that have on this 28th day of September 2007 caused
to be served by placing into the USPS mail system with first-class postage affixed unless
otherwise noted copy of the foregoing Request for leave to submit 80.475b
Washington DC 20036-3406
Warren Havens
Before the
In the Matter of
OPPOSITION TO 80.475b
INFORMATION REQUEST
Paging Systems Inc PSI1 by its undersigned attorneys and as provided for in Section
submits this its Opposition to the 80.475b Information Request Request filed by AMTS
Consortium LLC ACL on September 28 2007 with Scot Stone Deputy Chief of the Mobility
Since ACL was told that no leave to file was required to file and the Request was
still filed under PSIs call sign WQA216 and was served on PSI it is assumed that the referenced
filing encompasses all of the information that ACL is requesting from the FCC Accordingly in
the interest of caution and because no additional filing has been forthcoming PSI is submitting
PSI received service copy by mail on October 2007 and accordingly this Opposition to the 80.475b
Information Request Opposition is filed pursuant to Section 1.4h
expanded request is filed later with the FCC PSI reserves the right to file further Opposition
For the reasons argued below the Request must be dismissed or denied on the
public record
basis that
request for information has been and
is that for that
it
already produced
it is also an attempt to elicit prohibited discovery at the FCC whipsaw PSI between state court
and an FCC proceeding and circumvent the FCC prescribed procedure that geographic
IL INTRODUCTION
ACL is urging the Commission to request information from PSI pursuant to the
provisions of Section 80.475 of its Rules concerning the technical operating specifications for
fill-in transmitters operated under the WQA216 Call Sign It is assumed that ACL wants any
This is an informal request pursuant to Section 1.41 since Section 80.475 does not
permit private parties to seek such information Section 80.475 provides that only the
Commission can request it ACL makes vague references to need for this information to
permit it as the geographic licensee to construct and operate facilities ACL as geographic
licensee has wide latitude in constructing facilities within the geographic area It does however
III DISCUSSiON
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PSI provided all the required information with respect to its operation in the New
York market in Petition to Deny against an application pursuant to Section 80.385b for
Northeast Utilities Service Company NLJSCO PSI described its facility at the former
World Trade Center complete with line losses as well as its operating fill-in facilities Thus
ACL is already aware of PSIs claim for protection for its WQA2 16 service area contour from
Nevertheless attached for the benefit of ACL is an Exhibit showing the technical
specifications from which the service area contour has been calculated pursuant to the
Commissions Regulations and the contours for the fill-in locations PSI will work with ACL
and its consulting engineer to ensure protection to PSIs protected service area contour
In the past the Commission has expressed its desire to reduce discovery by
parties in its proceedings In hearing proceedings the presiding officer must set parameters on
pre-hearing procedures The same thing is true in complaint proceedings Here however
The Request is in
essence an attempted end-run around the limitations on
discovery in Commission proceedings This request through Section 1.41 that the Commission
FCC File No 0003026497 which requested the authority pursuant to 80.385b to extend into PSIs
license area
Regarding ACLs comment about PSIs refusal to respond to ACLs previous uncivil and preemptory
request for information PSI points to the referenced correspondence See among other correspondence
Attachment to the above-referenced NtJSCO application It is clear that the referenced request was
simply made to threaten and intimidate
See for example Repon and Order FCC 97-396 12 FCC Rcd 22497 71 1997 The proposals in the
Notice were designed to promote fact-based pleadings and to shift the focus of fact-finding away from
See Section 1.729 See in particular Section l.729aThis procedure may not be employed for the
purpose of harassment...
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precedent was provided by ACL in support of the Request Thus absent specific showing of
immediate need the open-ended information Request to permit ACL as the geographic licensee
to construct and operate facilities requires the Commission to deny it As noted above the
Having filed suit in the California Superior Court ACL now intends to pursue
PSI in like manner at the FCC Since it has lost on numerous occasions before the FCC with
respect to PSI it is pushing the litigation envelope even thither by attempting to circumvent the
exclusive jurisdiction and the authority that the FCC has over FCC licensing in state
proceeding Here ACL is asking the Commission to join in on its efforts The Commission
must assert its authority in this matter and deny the Request
10 Instead of fishing expedition ACL should do as the rules require and file an
application prthenting its proposed operations The Commissions Rules provide procedures for
the protection of incumbent operations In particular Section 80.3 85 provides details of the
applicable standards ACL is always free to construct and operate facilities no closer than 120
kilometers to an incumbent licensee without further leave of the Commission and without
specific showing of protection If ACL desires to construct short-spaced facilities the protection
See Report Under Section 1.65 re File No 0002147762 filed on August 23 2007
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11 The service area contour for WQA2 16 and its underlying specifications is
described in the attached Exhibit PSI will work with ACL and its consulting engineer to ensure
protection to that service area contour If and when ACL has specific proposals that it wishes to
move forward ACLs consulting engineer should contact the undersigned if any assistance is
desired or needed on the part of ACL PSI will make its consulting engineer available to ensure
that ACLs proposal provides the protection required by the Commissions Rules to the PSI
12 In its claim for needed information on the existing PSI fill-in transmitters under
Call Sign WQA2I ACL provides no specificity In othtr words it has not indicated that it has
proposals ready for specific sites operating on specific frequencies Rather it talks in
vague
terms about plans for the fixture Obviously ACL knows the protection criteria applicable to the
WQA2 16 incumbent service area contour If that contour is protected by definition there
should be no interference problems created by the fill-in locations To the extent that ACL
should experience interference in the fixture to actual operations believed to be created by any of
the then existing PSI fill-ins PSI will assist in eliminating any interference in fact caused by its
operations consistent with its responsibility as licensee However to speculate about the
future is hardly justification for grant of the extraordinary relief requested by ACL
IV CONCLUSION
unauthorized discovery There is no precedent and most importantly no factual justification for
The contour which PSt claims for WQA2 16 has been challenged in the referenced NUSCO application
proceeding However until this matter is resolved ACL when protecting the WQA2 16 contour claimed
by PSI will be able to move forward any of its
plans without delay
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this extraordinary request The Commission cannot permit itself to be pulled into the middle of
vexatious private litigation in the state courts of California Having elected to institute such
litigation in the State of California ACL must be bound by the rules of that process It cannot be
For all the foregoing reasons the Commission must refuse to invoke its
process for the
Respectfully submitted
By _____________
Rasmussen
Audrey
David Hill
ITS ATIORNEYS
74137vLl99991400014
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EX1UBIT
Engideering Statement
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Char1e Ellis RE
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
Gladys Nichols do hereby certilS that on this th day of October 2007 the
Warren Havens
AMTS Consortium LLC
2649 Benvenue Avenue
Suite
Berkeley CA 94704
Scot Stone
By Electronic Mail
74137 l99991400014
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gjng Systems Inc.s Form 499-A New York New Jersey and Connecticut are not Listed
Paging Systems Inc PSI holds and alleges to have operated an AMTS licensed station in
New York with alleged contours extending into New Jersey and Connecticut but is not listing
any of these states on its 2008 Form 499-A see attached or previously filed Form 499-A the
most recent previously filed Form 499-A found for PSI via the FCCs online database was for
the PSI Form 499-A only listed California as the sole jurisdiction where PSI is providing
telecommunications services even though PSI alleges to have operating CMRS AMTS stations
PSI April 2008 Form 499-A from FCC online Form 499-A database see
http//lallfoss.fcc.gov/cgb/form499/499a.cfm
PSI April 2004 Form 499-A from FCC online database printed 11/1/07
Note Paging Systems Inc.s Form 499-A below with Registration Current as of date of
April 2004 was printed from the FCCs online Form 499-A database on November 2007
current Form 499-A on file for an entity Therefore at the end of 2007 Paging Systems Inc.s
most current filed Form 499-A was from 2004 even though the Form 499-A is required to be
FCC CGB Home 499-A Search Form 499-A Detail FCC site map
DETAILED INFORMATION
Filer Identification Information
City Washington
State DC
ZIP Code 200363406
California
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begun using some but not all of the authorized transmitters the notification must show
to which specific transmitters it
applies
Note The undersigned parties to the instant letter have conducted research
of FCC paper records and online databases and have not found records of
Form 6Ols having been filed by Paging Systems Inc to comply with the
Certificate of Service
to be served by placing into the USPS mail system with first-class postage affixed and into the
Federal Express package system for overnight delivery and as otherwise noted below copy of
the foregoing letter and its appendix and exhibits to the following
BURLINGAME CA 94011-4249
ATTN Susan Cooper
212 790-4500
Warren Havens
Berkeley CA 94704
August 30 2009
Paging System Inc
Robert Cooper and Susan Cooper
Paging Systems Inc
P0 Box 4249
Bulingame CA 94011-4249
Copy to
Audrey Rasmussen and David Hill
Washington DC 20036
address here Mrs Cooper as the allegedlOO% owner of Paging Systems Inc
married husband under California law and also the 100% owner of Touch Tel Corp that
as shown in FCC records and other public materials controls PSIs alleged construction
and operation of its licenses in the AMTS radio service in the 17-220 MHz range
For reasons explained below Skybridge Spectrum Foundation and Verde Systems
LLCs SF and VSL hereby request again that PSI comply with certain FCC Orders
discussed below the Orders that apply to your alleged-valid AMTS B-block stations
including those in the greater San Francisco Bay Area under Call Signs
KCE394 Mt Vaca
WHD866 Grizzly Peak
WHV362 Loma Ridge Los Gatos and
WHW396 Devils Peak Burlingame These four together the
Stations The site names in parentheses above are ones PSI assigned in FCC records
If PSI does not fully and timely comply with these simple requests then SSF-VSL
will file suit in an appropriate court for injunctive and other relief and seek shortened
In addition or in the alternative if PSI does not comply as just stated then 5SF-
VSL may proceed to used the subject B-block spectrum in the subject San Francisco Bay
Area under SSFs and VSLs respective geographic FCC licenses therefore without the
Attachment
PSI is aware of the Orders since the Orders either resulted from and/or are
cited in proceedings before the FCC in which PSI is party ii as with most all FCC
orders the Orders were made public by the FCC so that all licensees subject of the
Orders have the required notices and iii SSF-VSL cited these in FCC pleadings of
which PSI was formally served this year and thereafter responded We also cite below
again the Orders and the FCC rules they are based upon
By the requests and assumptions in the Attachments even if PSI fully complies
with the requests SSF andVSL do not waive their pending claims against PSI arising
froth PSIs past failures to comply with the same or similar requests and of other
Sincerely
Warren Havens
Attachments
SSF-VSL can demonstrate to the court if needed certain valuable economic and
philanthropic opportunities which require PSI compliance with the Requests made herein under
the cited FCC Orders These opportunities if not acted upon soon after September 15 2009 will
be irreparably damaged or filly lost Since this letter is at least the third formal written demand
to PSI on the matters of this letters Requests over the course of several years PSI has had an
abundance of time to comply Complying involves merely providing the most basic records that
an AMTS licensee is required to keep under FCC rules and under any actual operated AMTS
station for PSIs Stations sole authorization for commercial mobile radio services
Attachment
First jfyou comply with the request in Attachment below to immediately surrender to
the FCC the identfled terminated Stations then the request in this Attachment is moot
Attachment since as described in Attachment PSI Station that failed to meet the
and did not survive to the suspension date discussed in this Attachment below
in original
and Rules it cites including including the following some footnotes deleted
underling added
dBu signal contour is function of its ERP see 47 C.F.R 73.699 Figs
10-1 Oc but the power limit for site-based AMTS stations in the rules and
In this regard the FCC previously found in another Order that FCC rule section 80.70a
cited below underlining added applies to AMTS In the Matter of Amendment of the
Report and Order and Third Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making FCC 00-370 released
80.70 Coast stations which transmit on the same radio channel above 150
separated by less than 241 kilometers 150 miles which transmit on the same
radio channel above 150 IvHlz must also consider time-sharing arrangement...
Request
Separately for each of the four PSI Stations see page above provide the
information needed to determine each Stations ERP which includes the specific
antenna and its azimuth as installed and the other antenna systems components
As indicated above the FCC ordered suspension that with no lapse in time
became permanently bar of any increase in each AMTS sited-based stations including
the subject Stations service contours and thus in its EPR since said contours are direct
NOTE the above Order FCC 09-793 makes clear that SSF-VSLs obligation to
your providing this information SSF-VSL and associates have requested this for
years in
formal written demands and PSI had refused to respond If PSI does not fully and
truthfully provide this information as requested above and thereafter interferes with the
use by SSF-VSL of the subject AMTS B-block co-channel spectrum in the subject
greater San Francisco Bay Area PSI will be in further violation of FCC and other law
and will cause greater damages including those indicated in footnote herein
ProposedRule Making FCC 00-3 70 released November 16 2000 The permanent bar in the
same docket just noted is in the Fifth Report and Order FCC 02-74 released April 2002 and
in subsequent Orders effecting all future AMTS licensing by auction of geographic licenses
Attachment
The below request to immediately turn in each of the four Stations see page above
licenses to the FCC for cancellation is based upon the following FCC Orders and the
rules cited in said Orders which themselves are FCC Orders as determined by US Courts
This makes clear that PSI was required to have two or more stations the
theoretical minimum for any overlap at all which is sufficient for the purpose of this
coverage deadline under FCC rule section 80.45 7a its form at the time of each said
deadline.4
The FCC made clear in other Orders that one or more site-based AMTS stations whose
with regard
service contours was were contained within the service contour of another station
not qualifly as separate stations here Oualilkd station but are considered one station and
See Fred Daniel dlb/a Orion Telecom Memorandum Opinion and Order 13 FCC
requirement
Rcd 25313 25315 WTB PSPWD 1998 ajffd Order on Reconsideration 14 FCC Rcd 1050
WTB PSPWD 1999 review denied Memorandum Opinion and Order FCC 99-358 rel Nov
24 1999
With regard to this multi-station continuity-of-coverage requirement as you know it
was the sine qua non of the FCC establishing and maintaining the AMTS radio service and PSI
to the maritime public See e.g First Report and Order FCC 91-18 Gen Docket No 88-
372 released January 25 1991 68 RR 2d 1046 FCC Rcd 437 1991 FCC LEXIS 368 the
Nationwide Order the Daniels-Orion Orders noted above and lathe matter
of. .Paging Systems Inc Memorandum Opinion and Order DA 98-1368 released July 1998
13 FCC Rcd 17474 the Great Lakes Order for the Great Lakes and Pacific and Atlantic
Further PSI asserted to the FCC that it would meet this continuity of service coverage as the
FCC stated in PR Docket No 92-257 Second MOO FCC 02-74 17 FCC Rcd 6685 2002 FCC
LEXIS 1648 Released April 2002 underlining added
n78 Psis constitutional takings argument is curious see PSI August 23 Petition
at 6-11 given that the service contour PSI now attacks as unconstitutional is the
same contour that it used in its applications to demonstrate that its proposed
d/b/a Orion Telecom and Paging Systems Inc Memorandum Opinion and
This as in
many similar FCC Orders including on AMTS makes clear
that when PSI or other AMTS licensees of site-based stations failed to meet the
As you know said terminated stations must then under FCC rules including
FCC rule section 80.49a3 and the condition stated on each Stations license be
surrendered to the FCC for cancellation
herein at the earliest construction-coverage deadline of the Stations PSI alleged to the
FCC to have constructed5 only one Qualified station in the San Francisco Bay Area and
thus that station automatically terminated without specific Commission action and the
station construction that PSI alleged to have thereafter achieved by the applicable more-
recent construction-coverage deadline was also single-Qualified-station construction thus
Thus PSI has never had any AMTS stations in the San Francisco Bay Area that
were validly constructed and maintained instead the Stations all automatically
terminated Accordingly PSI must turn back in the Stations licenses to the FCC for
cancellation
Request
If PSI agrees with the above assertions in this Attachment then immediately by
written notice turn in to the FCC for cancellation by no later than the response date noted
on page above each Stations license and provide copy of each notice to me
represents to be true and correct required by the FCC in the Orders cited in Attachment
above for each Station at the time of its construction-deadline so that SSF-VSL can
determine using the precise FCC-prescribed engineering methods regarding AMTS site
More accurately PSI merely wrote to the FCC in advance of said Stations deadlines that
on or about the dates of said deadlines PSI intended to commence testing to commence service
which is not an assertion of actual construction and coverage at all or of any action at any
particular date Years after these deadlines in 2004 PSI filled-in FCC form stating yes to
undefined construction of the Stations which is not required report of construction on Form
601 but at that time PSI did not change its initial statement that it would merely commence
testing While the above Request for the limited purpose of this letter gives the benefit of the
doubt to PSI assumes that PSI did not merely commence testing at some undefmed time but
actually constructed valid operating Stations by said deadlines it now appears that said PSI
yes statements to the FCC were since the FCC was asking what stations were constructed
by theft deadlines with the rule-required and PSI failed to provide that
coverage
based stations service contours whether or not PSI by these representations timely
EXHIBIT
Document3
Before the
In the Matter of
COMMENT
Maritime Communications/Land Mobile LLC MCLM by its attorney hereby files its
Comments on the Petition for Declaratory Ruling Petition filed in the above captioned matter
Transportation Monitoring Wireless LLC Verde Systems LLC Telesaurus Holdings GB LLC
and Skybridge Spectrum Foundation collectively Havens in the above captioned matter In
support of its
position MCLM shows the following
MCLM agrees with Scott Stone Deputy Chief Mobility Division that this matter has
not risen to the level where the Commission needs to be involved MCLM is willing and
ready to cooperate in the avoidance of interference to its incumbent systems as soon as Havens
demonstrates real need for this information by telling MCLM in what specific market he
plans to build and where he plans to operate Such evidence could include receipts for
equipment site leases customer requests etc In the meantime Havens is just badgering
MCLM in
every possible way he can imagine
Havens request for nationwide incumbent information to be provided all at once Was
request which was not made in good faith Concurrent with his request Havens informed the
Commission that once get the actual station parameters from MCLM whether via Court
action or FCC action plan to run the coverage studies under the applicable rule to
and formerly Mobex Petition to Deny in WT Docket No 10-83 at 62 filed April 28 2010
MCLM does remain willing to cooperate fully to avoid or resolve harmful interference if
actual interference to his systems However at the present time MCLM has seen no reason to
believe that Havens will construct any AMTS facilities He has done nothing yet despite
owning AMTS licenses for nearly decade now And in the 220-222 MHz band Havens
requested additional time to construct facilities although he had not constructed anything for
ten years see FCC File Nos 0003990344-379 0003989107-176 FCC File Nos
0003223081-114
MCLM looks forward to supplying this information when Havens presents it with
specific market needs MCLM looks forward to cooperating to avoid actual interference to its
Respectfully submitted
MARITIMECOMMUNICATIONS
LAND MOBILE LLC
Is Dennis Brown
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
hereby certify that on this sixth day of May 2010 served copy of the foregoing
COMMENT on the
following person by placing copy in the United States Mail first-class
postage prepaid
Warren Havens
2649 Benvenue Avenue 2-6
Dennis Brown
EXHIBIT
Document3
Sin Ce rely
Warren Havens
Mr Havens
Copying me on your communications with other parties is unnecessary The
Commission will not involve itself in matters that licensees are expected to resolve
between themselves While such matters could later develop into matters for
does not pertain to specific matter that is pending before the Commission
Scot Stone
Mr Dennis Brown
Mr and Mrs Donald and Sandra Depriest
Maritime Communications Land Mobile LLC MCLM
copy of this email will be served by regular email with Certificate of Service today
In addition copy will be filed under MCLM incumbent station licenses on the FCC ULS
iii since in
any case my position below is meant to reduce further extenuated contests before
the FCC on these matters and allow my companies that bought the majority of the and
block incumbent AMTS spectrum in the nation to use it without further artificial blockage and
evasion by MCLM and do not comment here as to the other AMTS incumbent station
licensee
MCLM as legal entity does not exist in law due to years of violation or the minimum State
law requirements including specifying to outside parties in government and private sectors
the entitys actual controllers and officers and acting in accord therewith to maintain legal
entity separate from its owners and controllers and to provide any entity right of holding
assets action liability protection or other legal right or protection However for purpose of
this email use the term MCLM Also by referencing MCLM incumbent stations below also
do not imply that any are valid under FCC law the evidence you and the FCC know of shows
otherwise apart from the violations of the Two Orders note below
Our LLCs and nonprofit foundation Havens Companies previously issued to MCLM written
demands for the actual MLMC AMTS incumbent station technical parameters-- those
described in DA 09-793 and DA 10-664 the Two Orders that incumbent licensees must
provide to the same-channel geographic licensees for the latter to determine under Sec
80.385b the required protection but no more to be provided to the incumbent stations to
their systems composite service contours based on the actual-station ERP and coverage
pattern of the stations those that existed at the freeze of incumbent licensees service
contours and have been maintained in actual permanent lawful operation ever since then
there is no rule-defined safe harbor in AMTS stations being off the air prior to permanent
discontinuance and we know of no Mobex or MCLM waivers in this regard
MCLM refused to respond to these demands and provide the required information
The Two Orders contain FCC orders not suggestions as the ordering clauses stated Even
if pending on reconsideration if you further appeal these orders are in effect Thus MCLM
has violated these FCC orders and remains in violation and this has caused the Havens
Companies damages and moreover violated FCC purposes of AMTS licensing and rules
system is to be presented in week to the US Supreme Court as MCLM knows and the other
one in USDC in New Jersey waiting on finality of the first case -- is that nothing that MCLM
does of any kind that may damage the Havens Companies or damage the markets under
antitrust law violations can be brought in court-- all claims that touch upon MCLM any way
in
be decided by the FCC Yet before the FCC MCLM will not comply with this most basic rule
as to the division of rights of AMTS geographic vs incumbent licensed stations nor honor
FCC rules on auction disclosures discounts fair bidding etc.
do not have to repeat here these written requests indicated above and the Havens
Companies do not waive past and ongoing damage claims However for the Havens
Companies below
repeat to MCLM again the same written request noted above and
to MCLM of the ramifications
give notice if
you do not comply with the preceding item
request
Please provide this information to me for the Havens Companies by the end of this
week It is information MLCM must have immediately at hand since it is the most
fundamental licensee information and keeping station records is FCC rule requirement also
This includes
All of the MCLM AMTS A-block incumbent stations where any MCLM-alleged
incumbent station service contour extends into or MCLM asserts must be protected under
Sec 80.385b by any of the geographic A-block licenses held by Environmentel LLC
Intelligent Transportation Monitoring Wireless LLC or Skybridge Spectrum Foundation
All of the MCLM AMTS B-block incumbent stations including in the Southeast Gulf
Coast and Mississippi River Basin areas where any MCLM-alleged incumbent station service
contour extends into or MCLM asserts must be protected under Sec 80.385b by any of the
geographic B-block licenses held by Verde Systems LLC or any of the entities in
above
If
you do not provide this information by that time then in addition to other legal
the Two Orders and other FCC law then Havens Companies will
relevant information --
such as the transmitter power levels commercially available in
217-220 MHz FCC and other records at the time of the alleged construction and
in
FCC freeze note above less than 50 Transmitter Output power what Mobex itself in
files MCLM maintains
including public UCC filings states as license holder stations other
evidence our agents have investigated such as MCLM stations that are disconnected lack
of lease payments and other causes or token with no interconnect or customers etc etc
and use not more than resulting ERPs far lower than the maximum that could have been
constructed under the granted applications resulting in the subject MCLM incumbent station
systems
For some time we wilt probably use but do not here promise giving the benefit of the
doubt what is reasonable to assume consulting experts and keeping equipment and
engineering files toback our position simple systems was built to warehouse-- attempting
if
for that purpose which is apparent in the public records on Mobex and MCLM to keep
signal on the air to keep the license but with no real commercial intent or results-- spectrum
at low cost That warehousing purpose is what MCLM-Mobexs own UCC filings show and all
over evidence at most points to including all its FCC filings and current business of selling
We do not have to get and do not seek MCLM permission in advance for our
Take the position before the FCC third parties and courts and other authorities
that MCLM is not entitled to later assert any particular actual station technical parameters
required to have been given to the Havens Companies under the Two Orders and must be
found --if it can first
prove up that it meet all FCC requirements to keep the subject stations in
the first place including overlapping coverage under the then-current Sec 80.475a the
rules on no permanent discontinuance the rules that required interconnect the licensee and
applicant character qualifications etc.-- to have forfeited any protection under Sec 80.385b
that it could have obtained had it
complied with the requirements of the Two Orders and thus
that the Havens Companies AMTS geographic stations system plans and economic
relations based on the above assumptions caused solely by MCLM violation of the Two
Orders can stand with no modification
Sincerely
Warren Havens
President
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