SES Seeks FCC Green Light to Start C-Band Efforts
To meet FCC-set C band clearing deadlines, satellite operators need to start work, and the agency needs to OK that and make clear the costs of those efforts will be fully reimbursable as relocation costs, said SES in meetings with…
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staff including International Bureau Chief Tom Sullivan, per a docket 18-122 posting Friday. The work needing to start now includes implementing technology upgrades and dual illumination to meet the Aug. 14 deadline when transition plans are to be finalized, it said. Though facing June 12 and Aug. 14 transition plan deadlines, satellite operators can't get those done until they have identified the earth station operators that will accept lump sum payments, so set a timely lump sum payment election deadline, the company said.