FCC Precedent Full of New Flexible Rights Given to Incumbents, C-Band Alliance Says
Rather than a departure from FCC precedent, the C-Band Alliance's C-band clearing proposal "follows a long line of established precedent," CBA filed Wednesday in docket 18-122. CBA listed multiple instances of the agency giving flexible rights to licensees in the…
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past, with those licensees then able to use those expanded rights or conduct secondary market transactions to convey those rights. Those instances included 2012 approval of Dish Network's licenses for TerreStar-1 and DBDS G1 during a pending rulemaking to add AWS-4 service rules to the band and 2016 creation of upper microwave flexible use service allocation for licenses in the 28 GHz and 39 GHz band that extended to incumbents. CBA said it emailed the filing to Chairman Ajit Pai, the three regular commissioners and the heads of the Wireless and International Bureaus and the Office of Engineering and Technology head.