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	Federal Communications Commission	"FCC/DA  XX-XXX"



DA 21-478
April 26, 2021

NOTICE OF DOMESTIC SECTION 214 AUTHORIZATION GRANTED 

WC Docket No. 21-96

The Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) grants the application listed in this Public Notice pursuant to the Commission’s streamlined procedures for domestic section 214 transfer of control applications, 47 CFR § 63.03.  The Bureau determined that a grant of this application serves the public interest.  Implementation of Further Streamlining Measures for Domestic Section 214 Authorizations, Report and Order, 17 FCC Rcd 5517, 5529, para. 22 (2002).  Alliance Global Networks, LLC and Velocity, A Managed Services Company, Inc. f/k/a Velocity The Greatest Phone Company Ever, Inc. (together, Applicants) seek approval for the transfer of control that occurred on January 1, 2020, when Alliance was transferred to Velocity without prior authorization from the Commission.  On March 24, 2021, the Bureau granted Applicants’ request for special temporary authority for a period of 60 days to allow Velocity to provide uninterrupted service to customers during the pendency of this application.  Letter from Lance Steinhart, Counsel to Applicants, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, FCC, WC Docket No. 21-96 (filed Mar. 22, 2021) (on file in WCB Docket No. 21-96).  A grant of the domestic section 214 application is without prejudice to any enforcement action by the Commission for non-compliance with the Act or the Commission's rules.
  For purposes of computation of time when filing a petition for reconsideration or application for review, or for judicial review of the Commission’s decision, the date of “public notice” shall be the release date of this Public Notice.  Id.; see 47 CFR § 1.4 (Computation of time).
  Should no petition for reconsideration, application for review, or petition for judicial review be timely filed, the proceeding listed in this Public Notice shall be terminated, and the docket will be closed.

Domestic Section 214 Application Filed for the Transfer of Control of 
Alliance Global Networks, LLC to Velocity, A Managed Services Company, Inc.,  
WC Docket No. 21-96, Public Notice, DA 21-350 (WCB 2021).
 
Effective Grant Date: April 25, 2021

For further information, please contact Tracey Wilson at (202) 418-1394 or Gregory Kwan at (202) 418-1191, Competition Policy Division, Wireline Competition Bureau.



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