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Dish Wireless Files Amended Petition Seeking ETC Designation

EchoStar’s Dish Wireless filed at the FCC a third amended petition for designation as an eligible telecommunications carrier in the federal default states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire and North Carolina, as well as the District of Columbia and…

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all federally recognized tribal areas. The petition, posted Friday in docket 09-197, “amends and replaces in its entirety” a petition from April 2024, Dish said. Granting the ETC designation “serves the public interest because the Company is well-positioned to make wireless broadband services more robust and more affordable to low-income consumers.”