Dish Network assured the FCC it would commit to...
Dish Network assured the FCC it would commit to the power and emissions limits applicable to other fixed and base stations in the AWS-4 band if the FCC grants its waiver for flexible AWS-4 use 30 days before the Jan.…
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14 H-block auction. Dish committed “to operate any future downlink terrestrial fixed or base stations in the 2000-2020 MHz band consistent with the technical requirements applicable to other fixed/base stations in the AWS-4 band at 2180-2200 MHz and adjacent operational PCS/AWS bands” to provide interference protection for adjacent operations, it said in reply comments in docket 13-225 (http://bit.ly/16dPXO1). “Sprint’s additional request to condition grant of the waiver upon Dish’s satisfaction of potential reimbursement obligations to Sprint, however, is unwarranted,” it said. The FCC already decided to “require winning bidders to pay UTAM [Unlicensed Transition and Management] and Sprint, respectively, the amounts owed within thirty days of the grant of the winning bidders’ long-form license applications,” it said. NTCH, a wireless company, does not and cannot dispute the substantial public interest benefits of the requested flexible use of the 2000-2020 MHz band for both AWS-4 licensees and future H-Block and J-Block licensees, Dish said.