What it does The document contains the May 5, 2022 notification and attaches the October 20, 2017 Letter of Agreement (LOA) between DOJ and GigSky Mobile, LLC and GigSky, Inc. The LOA addressed national-security, law-enforcement, and public-safety concerns arising from GigSky’s request for approval of foreign indirect ownership in FCC wireless licenses WQJZ324 and WQJZ325 under section 310(b)(4). Its commitments included maintaining U.S. headquarters; screening personnel with unescorted access; advance notice of ownership, business, service, vendor, and equipment changes; DOJ-approved compliance and law-enforcement points of contact; CALEA compliance; U.S. storage of U.S. records; controls on foreign-government requests for data; equipment inventories and DOJ objections; audits, reporting, and site visits. Breach could support a DOJ request that the FCC modify, revoke, or terminate a relevant authorization.

Who it affects The immediate parties are GigSky, GigSky Mobile, DOJ, the Committee, and the FCC. The commitments also reached successors, subsidiaries, affiliates, contractors, network-equipment suppliers, and service providers handling GigSky’s U.S. communications or records.

Why it matters The notice records the end of a Team Telecom mitigation condition because Compliance Monitoring Agencies determined that mitigation was no longer warranted. It also preserves the operative detail of the terminated framework, including U.S.-based data handling, lawful-intercept support, oversight, and foreign-provider controls.

Key dates and numbers

• May 5, 2022: DOJ notification requesting removal of the license condition.
• October 20, 2017: LOA date and underlying mitigation framework.
• FCC docket: ISP-PDR-20160415-00008; TT 16-035.
• Licenses: WQJZ324 and WQJZ325.
• LOA deadlines included 30 days’ advance notice for many changes, 60 days for the security plan, 180 days for the equipment inventory, and five business days for certain lawful-process responses.