The public benefits from Dish Network’s waiver request for...
The public benefits from Dish Network’s waiver request for flexible use of AWS-4 are uncertain, Sprint Nextel said. “Dish is incorrect that the grant of the waiver itself ‘offers substantial uncontested public interest benefits,'” Sprint said in reply comments in…
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docket 13-225 (http://bit.ly/1irSnZD). While the interoperability agreement is intended to correct a recognized problem at 700 MHz, “the potential public interest benefits arising directly from the waiver would only be realized if Dish chooses to use the lower AWS-4 band for downlink operations,” it said. Dish’s objections to Sprint’s proposed Broadcast Auxiliary Service reimbursement condition are misplaced, Sprint said. Grant of the waiver gives Dish the flexibility “to operate outside the purview of previously adopted technical rules and to alter the outcome of a finalized rulemaking proceeding,” it said. “Such exceptional treatment should only be bestowed upon, and retained by, an entity that complies with the commission’s fundamental policies and rules.”