Hawaiian Community Association Loses Push for 2.5 GHz Tribal Waiver
The Wireless Bureau rejected Kaumana Hawaiian Homes Community Association's request for a waiver of FCC rules to allow it to apply for a 2.5 GHz overlay license under the tribal window. Based on the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ list of…
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federally recognized tribes, none are in Hawaii, which means no entities there were eligible to apply for the available spectrum, the bureau said Thursday. Kaumana “provides no rationale or explanation for why it warrants waiver of the Commission’s Rural Tribal Priority Window rule defining eligible entities,” the bureau said: “Kaumana does not assert that the purpose of that rule would be frustrated absent a waiver nor that grant of a waiver would be in the public interest” and “makes no assertion that it was subject to unique factual circumstances.”