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| 186 | Dish-related DEs again denied $3.3B in bidding credits (簡訳:皿関連のDEは、入札クレジットで33億ドルを再び拒否しました) | ----------- | |
| FierceWireless: Wireless | 2020-11-25 04:30 | ????0? | |
| Here’s a brief history of the AWS-3 narrative. Under Chairman Tom Wheeler, the FCC voted in 2015 to deny $3.33 billion in bidding credits to Northstar and SNR. The companies appealed that ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and two years later, the court ordered the FCC to allow the DEs to “negotiate a cure for the de facto control the FCC found that Dish exercise over them,” noted LightShed analyst Walter Piecyk in a blog post last week. Despite that order, “the FCC refused to engage or negotiate with Dish as instructed by the D.C. Circuit. No guidance. No negotiation,” Piecyk wrote.“For Dish, the decision is a setback for an emerging competitor and we are disappointed. The ruling hurts, in part, because we have enormous respect for the FCC commissioners and their public service... We are discouraged that the agency declined multiple meeting requests over the past two-and-half years so that Northstar and SNR’s applications could be further amended if for any reason they were found to imply de facto control. The refusal to be transparent about these requirements departed from decades of precedent governing how the FCC has treated other designated entity arrangements," Ergen said. “After affording the parties ample opportunity to resolve these deficiencies, today we find that they have failed to do so,” Pai said. “Indeed, the exercise has only reconfirmed that Northstar and SNR are not kings of their own destiny, but pawns. For example, even though the two entities are in significantly different positions in terms of their finances and spectrum portfolios, they curiously submitted to the Commission nearly identical revisions to their agreements with Dish Network. These agreements maintain Dish Network’s stranglehold over the two companies’ businesses and restrict the entities’ ability to raise capital, lease their spectrum, or enter into mergers or other corporate transactions.”Starks said that while the current agreements between Dish and the companies in this case may have fallen short of the commission’s de facto control prohibitions, “I reiterate my support for the Commission’s Designated Entity program and its accompanying rules. Congress has made it clear that diversity among Commission licensees is critical. The Designated Entity program seeks to create economic opportunities so that our country’s wireless spectrum isn’t strictly controlled by a few large carriers. We must do better.”“In one bold stroke, the FCC has upheld the integrity of both its spectrum auction processes and its designated entity program,” said VTel CEO Michel Guité in a statement. “It’s fitting that this decision comes on the heels of the Nobel Committee’s recent decision to award the Prize for Economics to two men — Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson — who advanced critical improvements in auction theory. Their work has been foundational to the FCC’s decades-long success in raising hundreds of billions of dollars for the American taxpayer. Today’s decision makes clear their work is about more than just raising auction revenue; it’s also about ensuring that auctions are transparent and fulfill the public interest in the broadest possible sense.” -- ???????? | |||
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