Ergen: Narrowband Net Will Be 'Big Dish' IoT Play; 5G to Follow
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Yes. And personally I think $500 is outrageous for a private citizen to have to pay for "registration" that may effectively do nothing.
Is this only for BUD owners, or do the new frequencies affect the really huge dish's the broadcasters traditionally use?
If it's just the home TVRO market, it's time has passed. Concepts like imminent domain means you have no recourse but to accept whatever compensation is offered. Like the "free" converter boxes passed out when we went from NTSC to ATSC.
The FCC is after part of the active C-band spectrum to sell to wireless broadband providers. Many broadcasters and engineers are voicing their concerns.
This would have far-reaching implications, even to Dish Network and Directv and many cable headends who still receive some (all?) of their raw station feeds from C-band.
This would have far-reaching implications, even to Dish Network and Directv and many cable headends who still receive some (all?) of their raw station feeds from C-band.
I don't think Charlie believes that it would interfere with current signals. I can't see him promoting a future thing over his sure thing.
Read the thread that was posted earlier, C Band Dish Registration and also the comments on the filing here: ECFS
While Dish may not have filed any comments (yet), the video carriers and distributors are represented there, including SES, Intelsat, Comcast, the NAB, Verizon and more.
SES and Intelsat believe they can free up 100 MHz of spectrum over an 18-36 month period if they have to, but they say any more than that will be costly and damaging:
"100 MHz clearing target for terrestrial mobile use is what each operator can accomplish reasonably within 18-36 months following a final Commission order, while ensuring the continued availability of highly reliable service to existing video customers. The ability to clear additional spectrum in the future beyond that amount, while still maintaining high quality video distribution and other services to customers, would be substantially more expensive and time consuming."
Believe me, there's no waiver of any kind. If one wants to register, the FCC fee is nearly $500. I might add that normal human beings can't wade through all the BS on the forms, including FRN's, degree locations, dish gain, etc...so engineering firms are being hired to handle the filing at additional fees. Yes, it's a money grab for the FCC. The only "waiver is of a procedure called the "frequency coordination" to see if there's anything in the area now vs. what you take-in which could be affected, and the BS about that one, is that while they're waiving that procedure and fee for filing, they're NOT guaranteeing that they won't ask us to do it later after the waiver is expired by the first filing deadline.
My stations have decided NOT to pay the FCC for this. I normally would do what seems logical, but this one is not logical, fair, nor well thought through. Just heard from CBS radio that they are preparing their statement for the FCC, but they encourage stations to file. I told CBS that should a 5g tower be put up blocking our CBS we'll just consider our contract with them over. Again: the FCC is NOT guaranteeing that registration will help alleviate grievances between parties IF THEY, THE FCC ALLOW THE FREQUENCIES TO BE SHARED.
They have to do something while the house is on fire.
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