Dish Network urged the FCC to dismiss a...
Dish Network urged the FCC to dismiss a petition from wireless carrier NTCH that asks the commission to reconsider its modification of the 2 GHz licenses held by Dish subsidiaries. The commission granted Dish the modification after Dish was granted…
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authorization to use mobile satellite service spectrum to deploy a terrestrial network (CD Feb 19 p10). NTCH filed the petition “to ensure that the commission retains the right to reverse the modifications consistent with its resolution of the issues” presented in docket 12-70, NTCH said in its petition in that docket (http://bit.ly/XpeYR5). The FCC “has examined the appropriateness of MSS use of the band already twice in the past two years,” Dish said in its opposition (http://bit.ly/11Wh7pL). NTCH’s suggestion that the commission prohibit MSS use of the band by rule “is the same request addressed in a new cloak.” Dish and the public “would be irreparably harmed by a rescission of the license modifications, as such an action would halt deployment of Dish’s MSS and terrestrial mobile broadband deployment,” it said.