The Utilities Telecom Council and startup Winchester Cator...
The Utilities Telecom Council and startup Winchester Cator fired back at the two parties opposed to reconsideration of their petition asking that utilities be allowed to use the 14.0-14.5 GHz band on a secondary basis for fixed point-to-point and point-to-multipoint…
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services. The Satellite Industry Association and EchoStar were alone in asking the FCC to reject the recon petition (CD July 2 p6). “SIA’s response to this issue is curious: Far from disputing it, SIA seeks to defend the fundamental inconsistency of the decisions by asserting that the judicial standard for review of an agency’s action is so lax as to make their failure to apply a consistent standard essentially non-reviewable,” UTC and Cator said (http://bit.ly/15yYMyH). “SIA is wrong both as a matter of Commission rule and policy and as to judicial review.” SIA ignores the “methods proposed by UTC/Winchester to avoid interference with primary satellite operations, including a five degree exclusion angle, that are more protective of primary satellite operations than currently imposed upon secondary operations in the band,” they said. The two also struck back at EchoStar: “EchoStar’s reading of the Order to suggest that every terrestrial station must be individually coordinated with every operating satellite to take into account its ‘particular sensitivities’ would undermine the very notion of an aggregate interference threshold."