DirecTV Counters Dish Arguments on 12 GHz Interference
DirecTV slammed Dish Network’s advocacy of revised rules for the lower 12 GHz band (see 2309110061), saying the risk of harmful interference to its direct broadcast satellite system were never addressed. “Any good-faith technical analysis would show massive interference to…
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DBS customers across the country if high-power terrestrial services are authorized,” said a filing posted Friday in docket 20-443. “Rather than submit an analysis that will doom its attempt to radically expand its [multichannel video distribution and data service] licenses for free, DISH instead baldly asserts that ‘Sharing Between Fixed and DBS Services Will Be Simple to Manage,’” DirecTV said: “DISH bases this on its ‘ability to avoid interference from its own base stations into its own DBS customers,’ though it holds licenses for only 82 of the nation’s 214 MVDDS Markets.”