From Bloomberg:
Dish Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen urged U.S. regulators to approve his company’s plan for a nationwide high-speed network for wireless Internet devices.
Ergen met Jan. 6 with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and other agency officials, according to a filing by Dish posted today on the agency’s website.
Dish, the second-largest U.S. satellite-television provider behind DirecTV, asked the FCC in August for clearance to buy assets of DBSD North America Inc. and TerreStar Networks Inc. and for license waivers.
“Nothing in the record should prevent immediate approval,” Dish said in the filing posted today. The company proposes building a ground-based network to handle traffic for its new service, using airwaves formerly designated for satellite service.
Incumbent mobile providers say Dish’s proposed network may cause interference to other services, and have asked the FCC to consider Ergen’s proposal as part of a broad rulemaking on new uses of airwaves.
CTIA-the Wireless Association, with members including largest U.S. mobile providers AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, asked for the rulemaking in an Oct. 17 filing. Dish is seeking waivers “that would appear to eviscerate” some restrictions on airwaves use, the association said.
The “application touches on important issues that should be addressed in a proceeding of general applicability, not in the limited context of a single party’s application,” the Washington-based trade group said.
Dish said a broad FCC inquiry would “only stymie” its plans by bringing “inevitable lengthy delays,” according to the company’s filing posted today.
Dish
FCC Filing: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7021752750
Dish Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen urged U.S. regulators to approve his company’s plan for a nationwide high-speed network for wireless Internet devices.
Ergen met Jan. 6 with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and other agency officials, according to a filing by Dish posted today on the agency’s website.
Dish, the second-largest U.S. satellite-television provider behind DirecTV, asked the FCC in August for clearance to buy assets of DBSD North America Inc. and TerreStar Networks Inc. and for license waivers.
“Nothing in the record should prevent immediate approval,” Dish said in the filing posted today. The company proposes building a ground-based network to handle traffic for its new service, using airwaves formerly designated for satellite service.
Incumbent mobile providers say Dish’s proposed network may cause interference to other services, and have asked the FCC to consider Ergen’s proposal as part of a broad rulemaking on new uses of airwaves.
CTIA-the Wireless Association, with members including largest U.S. mobile providers AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, asked for the rulemaking in an Oct. 17 filing. Dish is seeking waivers “that would appear to eviscerate” some restrictions on airwaves use, the association said.
The “application touches on important issues that should be addressed in a proceeding of general applicability, not in the limited context of a single party’s application,” the Washington-based trade group said.
Dish said a broad FCC inquiry would “only stymie” its plans by bringing “inevitable lengthy delays,” according to the company’s filing posted today.
Dish
FCC Filing: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view?id=7021752750
