Request for Confidential Treatment

0791-EX-CN-2017 Text Documents

NextNav LLC

2017-10-06ELS_199429

                                               NextNav LLC

                                   Request for Confidential Treatment

NextNav LLC (“NextNav”) hereby requests that the narrative attachment and the other exhibits
to its experimental license application be given confidential treatment and withheld from public
inspection pursuant to Section 0.459 of the Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 0.459. Pursuant to
the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), public disclosure is not required for “trade secrets,
commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged and confidential.” 1
The commercial information contained herein falls within this exemption from public disclosure.

Pursuant to Section 0.459(b) of the Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. § 0.459(b), the following
information is provided in support of the request for confidential treatment. The information for
which confidential treatment is sought is a description of NextNav’s specific efforts to
demonstrate to potential government customers the capabilities of its wireless location
technology, as well as technical details regarding its deployment. 2 This information involves
proprietary trade secrets and commercial information of NextNav. 3 The market for development
of wireless location technologies is very competitive. 4 Due to the competitive environment for
such services, release of this information could harm NextNav. 5

It is customary for companies such as NextNav not to disclose the details of its technologies and
methods. The commercial information contained in the narrative attachment and in the other
exhibits has been strictly controlled by NextNav, with distribution limited to internal use only
and to other parties (pursuant to appropriate non-disclosure agreements) only for the specific
purpose of conducting research, development, and demonstration of the technology. 6 NextNav
has not disclosed this commercial information to the public and disclosure to any other party has
been only as described herein. 7 NextNav requests that the subject information not be made
routinely available for public inspection at any time. 8 The competitive technical and commercial
information contained in the narrative attachment and the other exhibits would benefit
NextNav’s competitors and harm NextNav if it is released for public inspection at any time.

Finally, the public interest will be served by the granting of this request for confidential
treatment. It is in the public interest that equipment and technologies be developed to provide
wireless location monitoring services to facilitate competition in the provision of such services. 9

1
    5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(4); see also 47 C.F.R. § 0.457(d).
2
    See 47 C.F.R. § 0.459(b)(1), (2).
3
    See 47 C.F.R. § 0.459(b)(3).
4
    See 47 C.F.R. § 0.459(b)(4).
5
    See 47 C.F.R. § 0.459(b)(5).
6
    See 47 C.F.R. § 0.459(b)(6).
7
    See 47 C.F.R. § 0.459(b)(7).
8
    See 47 C.F.R. § 0.459(b)(8).
9
    See 47 C.F.R. § 0.459(b)(9).



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Document Modified: 2017-10-06 13:11:19

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