HEARING DESIGNATION ORDER (FCC 01-359)

This FCC order designates a hearing to determine whether Kevin Mitnick’s criminal record disqualifies him from continuing to hold an amateur (“ham”) radio license, which he had held for roughly 25 years.

The commission’s order lays out its concern that Mitnick’s history of fraud-related offenses raises a “substantial and material question” about his fitness to comply with FCC rules, opening a formal licensing dispute that would run for about a year.