The FCC International and Wireless bureaus modified the ancillary terrestrial component licenses...
The FCC International and Wireless bureaus modified the ancillary terrestrial component licenses of Gamma, a Dish Network subsidiary, and Dish’s New DBSD Satellite Services, to authorize Dish to provide terrestrial service in the AWS-4 spectrum band. The commission approved Dish’s…
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authorization to use the spectrum in an order last year (CD Dec 13 p8). The AWS-4 order proposed modifications to Gamma and New DBSD’s licenses “to add AWS-4 terrestrial operating authority, to remove ATC authority and to modify the MSS [mobile satellite service] duplex pairing,” the bureaus said in an order on modification. Gamma chose to operate on the new 2 GHz MSS A block (2000-2010 MHz and 2180-2190 MHz), and New DBSD will operate on the new B block (2010-2020 MHz and 2190-2200 MHz), it said. The modifications will be effective March 7, the order said.