FCC should proceed cautiously on Northpoint issue, Satellite Bcst...
FCC should proceed cautiously on Northpoint issue, Satellite Bcstg. & Communications Assn. (SBCA) said in Jan. 31 ex parte filing. Citing barrage of filings and communications on issue, SBCA said interference limits weren’t sufficient to protect DBS. It said…
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subscribers would be more likely to blame DBS companies when outages occurred because they wouldn’t know where to assess blame. Secondary licensees should be required to post bonds, and mitigation actions must be transparent to DBS customers and an adequate mitigation compensation mechanism must be developed, assn. said. Commission also should mandate auction, SBCA said. Northpoint said it shouldn’t be subject to auction since DBS operators received 79,000 MHz of free spectrum. “The sale of DirecTV for $25 billion is a pretty good return for their portion of the alleged $7 billion investment,” Northpoint Vp Toni Bush said.