Federal Communications Commission DA 11-1869
Before the
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554
In the Matter of
ROBERT L. CARDWELL
Station WNMR238, Las Vegas, Nevada
Request for Cancellation of License
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ORDER
Adopted:  November 9, 2011 Released:  November 10, 2011
By the Deputy Chief, Mobility Division, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau:
1. Introduction.  We have before us a request filed by Richard R. Susainathan (Susainathan) 
on March 8, 2011, seeking the cancellation in the Commission’s Universal Licensing System (ULS) of 
the license of Robert L. Cardwell (Cardwell) for 800 MHz Industrial/Land Transportation Pool Station 
WNMR238.1 For the reasons set forth below, we grant the request in part and will modify the 
Commission’s licensing records to reflect the cancellation of the authorization for location 11 (Sunrise 
Mountain).
2. Background.  Station WNMR238 is authorized to operate base stations at five locations, 
including Sunrise Mountain in Las Vegas, Nevada.  In 2007, the license for Station WNMR238 was 
assigned from Thomas Kurian to Pappammal Kurian (Ms. Kurian).2 In 2010, the license was assigned 
from Ms. Kurian to Cardwell.3 In support of his request that the Commission cancel this license, 
Susainathan argues that the license terminated automatically due to a permanent discontinuance of station 
operations.4 Susainathan provides documentation that he purchased the Sunrise Mountain base station 
equipment from Ms. Kurian in 2009, and that, on subsequent weekly visits to the site over a two-year 
period, he found no equipment for Station WNMR238.5  
3. On August 18, 2011, the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau’s Mobility Division 
(Division), acting pursuant to Section 308(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended,6 requested 
that Cardwell provide specified information concerning the operational status of Station WNMR238’s 
  
1 See Request to Initiate License Revocation Proceedings (filed Mar. 8, 2011) (Request).  
2 See FCC File No. 0003087467 (filed June 26, 2007).
3 See FCC File No. 0004009600 (filed Oct. 28, 2009); Robert Cardwell, Order, 25 FCC Rcd 10702 (WTB MD 
2010).
4 See Request at 3.  Section 90.157(a) of the Commission’s Rules provides that a Part 90 authorization, such as the 
license for Station WNMR238, cancels upon permanent discontinuance of operations.  For the purpose of this 
section, any station that has not operated for one year or more is considered to have permanently discontinued 
operations.  Section 1.955(a)(3) provides generally that authorizations terminate automatically, without Commission 
action, if service is permanently discontinued under the applicable rule for the type of service in question.
5 Id. at 10; see also Letter dated Oct. 12, 2011 from Richard R. Susainathan to Scot Stone/Jeff Tobias, Federal 
Communications Commission.
6 47 U.S.C. § 308(b).
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Sunrise Mountain location.7 Cardwell responded that he placed the facility into operation in 2011.8
4. Discussion.  Section 90.157 of the Commission’s Rules provides that a license for a 
private land mobile radio station cancels automatically upon discontinuance of operation for a period of 
one year or more.9 The information provided by Susainathan is persuasive evidence supporting his claim 
that Station WNMR238’s Sunrise Mountain location was not in operation for a period of one year or 
more and that its authorization therefore cancelled automatically due to a permanent discontinuance of 
service.10 Therefore, we will update the Commission’s Universal Licensing System to reflect the 
cancellation of the authorization for Station WNMR238’s Sunrise Mountain location.  We do not address 
Susainathan’s claims that the authorizations for the other Station WNMR238 locations, and for all of Ms. 
Kurian’s stations, also cancelled automatically due to a permanent discontinuance of service, because he 
provides no specific evidence in support of those claims.11
5. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to Section 4(i) of the Communications Act 
of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. § 154(i), and Section 90.157 of the Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. 
§ 90.157, the Request to Initiate License Revocation Proceedings filed by Richard R. Susainathan on 
March 8, 2011 IS GRANTED IN PART to the extent indicated above AND OTHERWISE DENIED, and 
the Commission’s licensing records SHALL BE MODIFIED to reflect the deletion of location 11 from 
the license for Station WNMR238.
6. This action is taken under delegated authority pursuant to Sections 0.131 and 0.331 of the 
Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 0.131, 0.331.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
Scot Stone
Deputy Chief, Mobility Division
Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
  
7 Letter dated Aug. 18, 2011, from Scot Stone, Deputy Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, Mobility 
Division to Robert L. Cardwell.  
8 See Letter dated Sept. 15, 2011 from Robert L. Cardwell to Jeff Tobias, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau, 
Mobility Division.
9 See 47 C.F.R. § 90.157(a).
10 See, e.g., National Ready Mixed Concrete Co., Memorandum Opinion and Order, 23 FCC Rcd 5250, 5253-54 
¶ 11 (2008).
11 See, e.g., Mobile Relay Associates, Order on Reconsideration, 25 FCC Rcd 13076, 13076 ¶ 3 (WTB MD 2010).