Dish Network, DirecTV and the Diego Beekman Mutual Housing Association Housing Development Fund agreed to drop their appeals and cross appeals before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said a stipulation (in Pacer) filed Wednesday with the 2nd Circuit. The appeals and cross appeals came after a judge for the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York in March granted the DBS companies' motions to dismiss the lawsuit but rejected their request for attorney fees and costs. Diego Beekman, owner of 38 apartment buildings in the Bronx, sued claiming the DBS companies installed satellite dishes without its approval and caused property damage as a result. U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in her ruling said the landlord failed to allege exclusive possession of the buildings, which would be required to maintain an action for trespass.

The FCC International Bureau created an online directory of all satellites authorized under Part 25 rules or granted access to U.S. markets, the Satellite Division said in a public notice in Friday's Daily Digest. The directory includes orbital location, satellite system name or call sign, operator name, frequencies, licensing administration and launch date. The bureau said creation of the list was a recommendation of the 2014 report on FCC process reform and part of Part 25 rules updates the FCC OK'ed last year (see 1512170036). The bureau said directory corrections and questions can be sent to satinfo@fcc.gov.

Dish Network's Sling TV reconfigured its basic packages into single-stream Sling Orange and multi-stream Sling Blue and added NBC content to its lineup, it said in a news release Thursday. The $20 per month Orange package now includes BBC America, while its Blue service launched in April at $25/month has added BBC America, Bravo, NBC, NBC Sports Network, Syfy and USA. Sling said it expects to add regional sports networks to Sling Blue and content from NBC affiliates on a market-by-market basis. Sling added Fox earlier this year (see 1604130042).

Pointing to Ligado and GPS company NovAtel's reaching a coexistence agreement (see 1606280067), Leica Geosystems -- which previously told the FCC it had concerns about Ligado's LTE plans possibly interfering with its global navigation satellite systems use -- said in a filing posted Wednesday in docket 11-109 that it now supports the modification applications sought by Ligado.

None of the four major wireless carriers have a balance sheet strong enough to buy all or most of Dish Network's spectrum holdings, while other possible buyers -- including Charter Communications or Comcast -- seem unlikely, emailed MoffettNathanson analyst Craig Moffett to investors Tuesday as the firm downgraded its Dish rating to "sell." The "prospects for Dish monetizing its spectrum, by sale, by lease or even by acquisition are much more limited than the spectrum-as-commodity framework would suggest," Moffett wrote. Neither Sprint nor T-Mobile needs mid-band spectrum as much as they need low-band spectrum, he said, saying Comcast could afford such a deal, but its strategy seems to be aimed more at using its Verizon mobile virtual network operator partnership and perhaps participation in the current incentive auction. Google, Apple or Amazon could afford a Dish deal, Moffett said, but if they had spectrum wants they likely would have registered for the incentive auction. He also was skeptical of Dish using the spectrum for building its own network, since even one that only satisfies FCC ownership requirements would necessitate billions in capital expenditures. Dish didn't comment Tuesday. Dish stock closed the day at $50.33, up 1.47 percent.

GPS company NovAtel, which had voiced concerns about interference from Ligado's planned LTE network (see 1605200064), now is backing the satellite spectrum company. In a joint filing Tuesday in docket 11-109, the two companies said they had reached a coexistence agreement that involves future coordination before any network deployment "and for equipment refinements as needed." NovAtel also said it supported Ligado's proposed license modifications.

With its Jupiter 2 satellite scheduled to launch in December, Hughes Network Systems is seeking permission to operate it at 97.1 degrees west. In an FCC International Bureau filing Friday, Hughes said the Ka-band satellite -- which will provide broadband services -- already is authorized by Papua New Guinea for launch and for operation at 97.1 degrees west and authorized for U.S. market access, but the company wants to relicense Jupiter 2 as a U.S.-flagged satellite.

Gogo wants FCC permission for up to 200 earth station aboard aircraft (ESAA) terminals communicating with Intelsat 20, which orbits at 68.5 degrees east. In an International Bureau filing Friday, Gogo said its requested special temporary authority will let it respond to Middle East customer demand. The company said it's also preparing an application to modify its ESAA license to add satellites as points of communication.

Intelsat's Galaxy 11 could be on the move again, The company asked the FCC International Bureau for special temporary authority (STA) to drift it from 60.1 degrees east to 45 degrees east, operate it temporarily there, and then drift it to 44.9 degrees east for its final location. According to Intelsat's IB filing Thursday, the satellite -- licensed to permanently operate at 55.6 degrees west -- is expected to arrive at 45 degrees east in mid October, and once there pick up some of the traffic now carried by Intelsat 12. The company said it expects to file a permanent modification application to operate the satellite at 44.9 degrees east. Intelsat in February asked for STA to operate Galaxy 11 at 60.1 degrees east (see 1602110003) -- a request granted in May.

Qualcomm said it’s supporting the European Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) across its product portfolios. The company began implementing hardware support for Galileo several years ago in select chipsets, and now offers what it called the industry's first “pervasive,” end-to-end location-services platform for smartphone, computing, infotainment, telematics and IoT applications. The Qualcomm IZat location services platform uses up to six satellite constellations concurrently without incremental device hardware or cost, and users benefit from more than 80 different satellites when calculating global position for navigation or location-based applications, Qualcomm said Tuesday. The addition of another GNSS is intended to provide more accurate location performance, faster time-to-first-fix, and improved robustness worldwide, “particularly in challenging urban environments where the combination of narrow streets and tall buildings can reduce accuracy,” the company said. The feature is integrated in the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 800, 600 and 400 processors and modems, and Galileo will be supported on smartphones and compute devices through software releases for Snapdragon 820, 652, 650, 625, 617 and 435 processors; automotive infotainment solutions incorporating Snapdragon 820A; telematics and IoT solutions with Snapdragon X16, X12, X7 and X5 LTE modems; and Qualcomm 9x15 and MDM6x00 modems, said the company.