ACA Says Will Sue If No C-Band Election Deadline Response by Wednesday
ACA Connects, which asked for a response by Aug. 20 to its request that the deadline for C-band earth station lump sum elections be stayed (see 2008170003), now is amending its ask to an Aug. 26 deadline. It said in…
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a docket 18-122 post Monday that without a decision by then, it will seek a stay of the Sept. 14 deadline from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The FCC moved the deadline from Aug. 31 to Sept. 14 last week, but never addressed ACA's petition (see 2008200052). T-Mobile officials told Wireless Bureau and Office of Economics and Analytics staff T-Mobile doesn't oppose a brief deadline extension, but other deadlines leading up to and including the C-band auction start need to remain the same. It said satellite operators also need adequate time to update their C-band transition plans after all the lump sum elections are made.