C-Band Order Already Hurting Competition, SSOs Tell DC Circuit
The FCC still hasn't explained how small satellite operators losing 60% of their C-band spectrum and getting new restrictions on the rest "is a mere 'modification,'" SSOs ABS Global, Empresa and Hispasat said Friday in a U.S. Court of Appeals…
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for the D.C. Circuit reply (in Pacer, docket 20-1146) supporting their motion for a stay of the commission's C-band order (see 2005180036). They said the accelerated clearing payments already caused "significant competitive harm" with markets responding to the nearly $10 billion in payments the incumbent operators are to receive. The FCC didn't comment.