Dish Says NTCH's FCC H-Block Backroom Deals Claims Baseless
NTCH's claims that the FCC and Dish Network reached a backroom agreement on H-Block spectrum are "unsupported and erroneous," Dish said in a docket 18-1241 intervenor brief (in Pacer) Thursday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.…
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Dish said undoing FCC orders and unwinding Auction 96 would throw a monkey wrench into its plans to build out its lower 700 MHz E block, H block and AWS-4 licenses and "strand" millions of dollars of its investments. It said NTCH -- in challenging the agency's H-block actions (see 1812130070) -- didn't cite any statute or case law backing the idea the FCC can't consider the kind of minimum bidding commitment offered by Dish in connection with public interest analysis. Dish said neither it nor the agency concealed the details of Dish's proposal and the commission evaluated it in a public proceeding in which NTCH took part. NTCH outside counsel didn't comment.