LAS VEGAS – Cyren Call Communications Corp. Chairman Morgan O’Brien said that any company the Public Safety Spectrum Trust advisor spoke with prior to the unsuccessful attempt to auction off the D-Block license that thought Cyren Call was looking to resell access to the network to the public-safety community is mistaken.
The claim comes despite repeated mentions in a recent Inspector General’s report that Cyren Call was looking to launch a mobile virtual network operator service running on the network using the D-Block license.
“The only contemporaneous written record of what we were saying and what we were intending is the bidder information document, and it states that the position of the PSST is that it might be seeking an MVNO position for itself,” O’Brien explained following his keynote address last week at the Rural Cellular Association event in Las Vegas. “The reason why we did this document is this exact reason, we want something in writing. So if someone discussed with us in the course of numerous conversations and issues of this complexity and got some of the details confused . I would like to be judged by what we wrote. It’s not likely that we would have put something in the document and not gone with what we wrote. I’m not saying people were being malicious, but it’s complicated with what public safety wants and what public safety is going to do, but it’s complicated.”
O’Brien added that the claims were not mentioned until after the fact and that the results of the IG report exonerating Cyren Call from any wrongdoing was right.
O’Brien also said that claims Cyren Call was demanding $50 million per year from the D-Block license winner were merely a starting point for negotiations on how the PSST would be funded and that those companies that Cyren Call spoke with prior to the auction provided little feedback on following up on the potential funding requirement.
Payback talk incorrect
O’Brien was also adamant that any link between the potential funding for the PSST and the possible payback to Cyren Call’s investors was incorrect.
“We told [our investors] we have no idea where this will end up and they said that’s what makes this a risk calculation,” O’Brien said. “We told them we were looking to find a constructive place for us in this world we were trying to create. We had to first create this world and then find a place in it. I don’t see what people find so hard to understand.”
