WASHINGTON-National Telecom PCS Inc. is continuing its battle against DCR PCS Inc., the winner of 43 C-block personal communications services licenses, by filing an application for full review by the Federal Communications Commission Nov. 27.
The company asked the FCC to stay the recent award of DCR’s licenses until a full evidentiary hearing could be held by the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau.
Despite the commission awarding DCR its licenses earlier that month, NatTel, which defaulted on its own C-block license for American Samoa, contended that the FCC had not investigated DCR’s foreign-ownership discrepancies well enough nor had the agency even attempted to look into NatTel’s charges of auction collusion between DCR and a financial institution that both companies used to raise funds.
In addition, NatTel wrote that the WTB “failed to investigate the true de facto ownership and control of DCR and dismissed out of hand, without sufficient factual inquiry, NatTel’s allegations that DCR misrepresented its true control-group structure.”
This charge harks back to NatTel’s belief that Daniel Riker actually runs the company and not his wife, Janice, as the company has stated.
NatTel asked the commission to consider a four-question list of items it believes need to be reviewed prior to the final granting of any of DCR’s licenses.
It also questioned why DCR was not subjected to a full Section 308(b) inquiry, as were personal communications services companies including NextWave Personal Communications Inc., GWI PCS Inc. and PCS 2000 Inc., when petitions to deny were issued against those C-block winners.
