U.S. Cellular Gets Three More Days to Answer Questions on Spectrum Deal

The FCC Wireless Bureau is giving U.S. Cellular three more days to respond to a December letter from the bureau asking questions about the proposed sale of a single 700 MHz A-block license in West Virginia from McBride Spectrum Partners to Hardy Cellular, a subsidiary of U.S. Cellular (see 1412090049). The new deadline is Jan. 8. “You indicate that holiday-related absences among USCC engineering personnel have made it impossible to complete the USCC's internal review process before the specified deadline,” said the Wednesday letter in docket 14-240. Because of the "unusual circumstances" the bureau granted "a brief three-day extension.”