VTel Defends Challenge to AWS-3 Buys by Dish-Affiliated DEs
VTel asked the FCC to deny motions by SNR Wireless and Northstar Wireless to “strike” or “dismiss” what SNR and Northstar claim are new “arguments” in the reply VTel filed in in support of its petition to deny their long-form…
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applications for the licenses on which they were the winning bidders in the AWS-3 auction. The two were the designated entities that worked with Dish Network in the AWS-3 auction (see 1505190046). They have defended their work with Dish as falling within the parameters of FCC rules (see 1505190046). “Apparently confused about the Commission’s rules, SNR’s and Northstar’s latest filings are nothing more than a transparent attempt to try to get the last word to which they are not entitled,” VTel said. “Every fact presented and every argument made in VTel’s reply responds directly to issues raised in the oppositions filed by SNR and Northstar, and neither SNR nor Northstar contends otherwise.” VTel, a family-owned phone company in Vermont, was also a bidder in the AWS-3 auction.