T-Mobile Complaint on Dish DEs Made too Late, SNR Chief Says
The FCC should reject a request by T-Mobile that the agency block two Dish Network-backed designated entities, and Dish itself, from bidding for the licenses they opted not to buy after being the initial winners in the AWS-3 auction, said…
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John Muleta, who heads one of the DEs, SNR Wireless. T-Mobile's letter last month was seen by analysts as a sign the carrier is interested in the returned licenses (see 1511020064). “The letter is an untimely request for reconsideration of the Commission’s August 18, 2015 order, which determined, inter alia, that the conduct of SNR, Northstar and DISH during Auction 97 did not violate Commission rules,” Muleta wrote the commission in a letter posted Tuesday in docket 14-78. “It is also an untimely request for reconsideration of the construction requirements applicable to AWS-3 spectrum.” The other Dish affiliate, Northstar Wireless, made similar arguments, in a separate filing.