Dish Network further cautioned the FCC against a 5 MHz...
Dish Network further cautioned the FCC against a 5 MHz upward shift at 2000-2020 MHz as part of a notice of proposed rulemaking that would allow Dish to deploy a terrestrial service. Such a modification “would needlessly inject serious regulatory…
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and technical obstacles into Dish’s planned deployment,” it said in an ex parte filing in docket 12-70 (http://xrl.us/bnnnde). Last week, a Dish executive had a telephone meeting with Zachary Katz, chief of staff for Chairman Julius Genachowski, Dish said. A shift would significantly undermine the usefulness of Dish’s 2 GHz satellites “by limiting the spectrum available for mobile satellite service (MSS),” and reduce the internationally harmonized spectrum “to only 5 MHz in the uplink band, limiting opportunities for global MSS roaming and global economies of scale,” it said. A 5 MHz move also would place AWS-4 uplink operations immediately adjacent to high-power broadcast auxiliary services and federal government operations in the 2025-2110 MHz band, it added.