Chairman Tells Inquiring Senators SkyTerra Order Doesn't Ban Any Spectrum Deals

摘要

The FCC’s SkyTerra-Harbinger order doesn’t preemptively ban any business arrangement, nChairman Julius Genachowski told four leading Republican senators who had raised the nissue. The Senate Commerce Committee's ranking member, Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, nand Sens. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, Sam Brownback of Kansas and David Vitter of nLouisiana, said the commission had failed to justify a condition that in effect prohibits SkyTerra nfrom leasing spectrum to AT&T or Verizon without the FCC's approval. The commission's nWireless and International bureaus are reviewing reconsideration petitions by AT&T and nVerizon, and the Republicans’ letter has been added to the record, Genachowski told the nsenators by letter.