C-Band Earth Station Operator Protests Being Off Incumbent List
Kansas cable ISP Cunningham Communications wants the FCC to reconsider not including its C-band earth station on the commission's incumbent earth station list, making it eligible for relocation costs. In a docket 20-205 application for review Tuesday, it said it…
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filed to register the earth station during the 2018 registration window, and remitted payment in July, yet it was inexplicably not on the incumbents list. It said the C-band transition could cost it $200,000. It also asked for waiver of any timely registration fee requirement that would make its late payment not eligible to be considered incumbent. The FCC didn't comment.