Hughes urged the FCC to avoid constraining non-federal...
Hughes urged the FCC to avoid constraining non-federal earth station operations if it decides to grant NTIA’s request to amend the national table of frequency allocations. NTIA wants an NPRM opened to change FCC rules on operation of federal earth…
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stations with commercial satellites (http://bit.ly/XRBqBo). Hughes asked the commission to ensure that federal earth stations are fully subject to its interference-prevention and coordination obligations for non-federal earth stations, Hughes said in an ex parte filing in docket RM-11341 (http://bit.ly/Y099e1). The filing recounted a meeting among a Hughes official, an attorney for the company and staff from Commissioner Mignon Clyburn’s office. The FCC should confirm that “a clear enforcement process is identified by NTIA to compel federal earth station compliance with these rules,” it said. Approval of the NTIA proposal should be subject to the principle that any non-governmental earth station application “that today would be acted upon without any review or involvement by NTIA must not require NTIA review or involvement if filed after federal earth stations are granted co-primary status in the Table of Frequency Allocations” in the FCC’s rules, it said.