Dish Continues Push Against FCC DBS Regulatory Fee Hike
Any hike of direct broadcast satellite providers' annual per-subscriber regulatory fee will only be passed onto consumers, hurting them, Dish Network said in an ex parte filing Thursday in docket 16-166. The FCC also failed to say what regulatory developments…
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in the past year justify hiking the fee from 12 cents to 27 cents per subscriber, Dish said. And the company said such a proposal is the kind of sudden large fee increase the agency has said it wants to avoid and "leaves the industry uncertain about what to expect in future years." The filing recapped a series of meetings between Dish Deputy General Counsel Jeffrey Blum and advisers for Commissioners Mike O'Rielly, Jessica Rosenworcel and Mignon Clyburn and Chairman Tom Wheeler. Dish strongly opposed the fee increase (see 1607060023).