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FCC Rejects ACA Challenge to C-Band Clearing Lump Sum

The FCC Wireless Bureau decision to not include integrated receiver/decoder (IRD) equipment costs in the C-band clearing earth station lump sum amount was based on "ample evidence" and followed the law and the agency's own C-band clearing order, the full…

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commission said in a docket 18-122 order Thursday denying ACA Connects' August application for review (see 2008140033). There's an extensive record showing IRD costs will be satellite operators' and they should be reimbursed, and ACA is ignoring plain language of the order, the agency said. ACA "relies on misleading quotations and ignores the breadth of evidence" in challenging the reasoning of the commission deciding compression equipment costs are satellite operator costs, it said. ACA emailed it was "reviewing the FCC's decision." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in September denied ACA's petition (in Pacer) to delay the lump sum election deadline (see 2008270052) (docket 20-1327).