The FCC reaffirmed its Oct. decision to allow Lockheed Martin and...
The FCC reaffirmed its Oct. decision to allow Lockheed Martin and Comsat to transfer their earth station, private land mobile radio and international licenses to Intelsat, dismissing and denying petitions for reconsideration from PanAmSat and Litigation Recovery Trust (LRT).…
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Lockheed, Comsat and Intelsat had asked the Commission to dismiss both petitions, saying PanAmSat wasn’t a party to the proceeding and had brought up “illogical concerns,” and LRT brought up issues that already had been considered (CD Dec 18 p10). The Commission said PanAmSat hadn’t participated in early stages of the proceeding. While Pegasus said “it couldn’t have known that the Commission planned to ‘eliminate’ dominant carrier regulation on thin routes,” the Commission ruled that PanAmSat hadn’t shown good cause for its nonparticipation and should “have appreciated that the docket might address its concerns about the regulatory status of the various Intelsat companies.” The FCC agreed that LRT raised only prior arguments again, all of which it rejected again: “We find these contentions and the remaining LRT arguments to be frivolous… In addition, LRT delayed its reply until after the reply due date, intentionally did not seek leave to file the late-filed pleading, and apparently did not serve the reply on the parties to the proceeding.”