ACA Seeks Access to C-Band Information; Phoenix Center Wants Private Auction
America’s Communications Association seeks access to confidential information in the C-band proceeding filed by Intelsat, SES, Telesat Canada and the C-Band Alliance. ACA, with an alternative proposal before the FCC (see 1907150010), said in docket 18-122 the satellite interests want…
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to deny access to its agents. “The Joint Objection appears to be nothing more than a procedural maneuver intended to prevent or significantly delay an adverse party -- one with a competing proposal that is enjoying a surge in support -- from gaining access to data that the Commission itself has deemed important to the proceeding.” Also Thursday, the Phoenix Center said a private auction as proposed by the CBA makes sense: “Given the private information available to the satellite industry, it makes sense for the government to allow the consortium to serve as an agent in conducting the sale, thereby ensuring the rapid and efficacious repurposing.” It said “while a public auction may be used to increase the government’s proceeds from repurposing the band, such enrichment is more than matched by a reduction in total economic welfare.”