The FCC International Bureau denied Spectrum Five’s request...
The FCC International Bureau denied Spectrum Five’s request for a stay of special temporary authority granted to EchoStar. The STA was granted this month to operate tracking, telemetry and command frequencies to move EchoStar 6 from 76.8 degrees west to…
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96.2 degrees west (CD April 3 p12). Spectrum Five hasn’t established that “it is likely to prevail on the merits, that it will be irreparably harmed absent a stay, or that public interest considerations warrant a stay,” the bureau said in a memorandum opinion and order (http://bit.ly/15EIV3a). Spectrum Five argued that the grant will result in harm to the public interest by suppressing competition, the order said. EchoStar argued that the STA is consistent with other cases that involved moving satellites, “including cases in which the move resulted in bringing into use the ITU filings of other countries,” it said. The bureau considers Spectrum Five’s contentions on harm to competition in the U.S. “to be speculative, and based on numerous unsupported assumptions,” it said.