Dish Network urged the FCC to dismiss a petition from wireless carrier NTCH that asks the commissionnto reconsider its modification of the 2 GHz licenses held by Dish subsidiaries. The commissionngranted Dish the modification after Dish was granted authorization to use mobile satellite service spectrumnto deploy a terrestrial network (CD Feb 19 p10). NTCH filed the petition "to ensure that the commission retains the right to reverse the modifications consistent with its resolution of the issues" presentednin docket 12-70, NTCH said in its petition in that docket (http://bit.ly/XpeYR5). The FCC "has examinednthe appropriateness of MSS use of the band already twice in the past two years," Dish said in its oppositionn(http://bit.ly/11Wh7pL). NTCH's suggestion that the commission prohibit MSS use of the band bynrule "is the same request addressed in a new cloak." Dish and the public "would be irreparably harmed byna rescission of the license modifications, as such an action would halt deployment of Dish's MSS and terrestrialnmobile broadband deployment," it said.
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