Missing Rooftop Transmitters Put Wireless Firm in FCC Crosshairs
- Straight Path Communications awaits decision on its licenses
- Company says it can’t back up claims made in earlier filings
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It was use-it-or-lose-it time: the wireless venture needed to show it was using its airwaves before its government-granted permission expired.
So the company, now known as Straight Path Communications Inc., assured the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in filings leading to license renewals in 2011 and 2012 that it was providing service over the designated frequencies with transmitters around the country, many of them at hotels.