Company Gets More Time To Build Out Licenses Serving Tribes in South Dakota

The FCC Wireless Bureau gave LL License Holdings until Dec. 13, 2016, to meet tribal lands bidding credit (TLBC) construction deadlines for two 700 MHz A-block licenses in South Dakota, to provide wireless service to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Santee Sioux of Nebraska reservations. The company sought an extension in May 2012, one month before its three-year TLBC construction deadline was set to expire. “While the Commission’s stringent TLBC construction rules are designed to ensure deployment of service in a short length of time, we find that the public interest weighs in favor of making available to these tribal communities the same advanced, interoperable 700 MHz LTE service offerings being deployed elsewhere,” the bureau said in a letter released Thursday.