Chairman Charlie Ergen and other Dish Network executives urged the FCC...
Chairman Charlie Ergen and other Dish Network executives urged the FCC to allow terrestrial use of mobile satellite services spectrum in the 2 GHz band, and said an upward migration of the 2000-2020 MHz band is unnecessary and not in…
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the public interest. Modifying Dish’s licenses “is the fastest possible way to get additional spectrum deployed for consumer use,” the company said in a filing (http://xrl.us/bndoxf). It pertained to two meetings last week between the Dish executives and Chairman Julius Genachowski, Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel and other FCC staff. A 5 MHz move of the 2000-2020 MHz band “could present interference problems for the S-band uplink from users of the 2025-2110 MHz band,” Dish said: It also would prevent the company from using all 20 MHz of satellite uplink spectrum “because the satellites cannot receive transmissions above 2020 MHz.” Docket 12-70, where the filing was posted, is about proposed rules around allowing Dish to build a terrestrial service in the 2 GHz band.