DirecTV said it wants Verizon Wireless and cable operators to...
DirecTV said it wants Verizon Wireless and cable operators to provide unredacted and complete documents on the carrier’s purchase of advanced wireless services spectrum from the four operators to “interested parties” under FCC protective orders. “Although the Commission may gain…
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access to the redacted materials through submissions made to the Department of Justice, private parties would have no such opportunity,” the DBS company said. “The Commission would then be in a position of making determinations about the relevance and significance of materials not in the record, which could run afoul of the Administrative Procedure Act.” DirecTV asked FCC General Counsel Austin Schlick and Media Bureau Deputy Chief Sarah Whitesell to “consider the precedent that would be set” if the agency lets an applicant “make unilateral determinations that certain information is not relevant to a proceeding or that Commission-imposed protective orders are not sufficient to safeguard confidential information,” said a Monday ex parte filing in docket 12-4 (http://xrl.us/bmw6pk). SpectrumCo partners Bright House Networks, Comcast and Time Warner Cable discussed with the commission last week the types of data they retain (CD March 5 p17). That came as part consideration of SpectrumCo and Cox selling AWS licenses to Verizon Wireless.