Levin: C-Band Proposal Gives Pai 'Leverage' Against CBA

摘要

An alternative proposal backed by ACA, the Competitive Carriers Association, and Charter Communications, Inc., gives FCC Chairman Ajit Pai "significant negotiating leverage" with the C-Band Alliance, according to Blair Levin, an adviser for New Street Research LLC and a former FCC chief of staff. In an Aug. 25 research note, Mr. Levin said that a new round of filings in the FCC's 3.7-4.2 gigahertz band proceeding "suggests to us that the policy debate will start revolving around the policy merits of two proposals; that from CBA and that from a coalition of ACA, Charter and CCA. That is, while other proposals will remain in the mix, the policy debates, as well as the political coalitions will evolve in a way that one or the other will emerge as the victor, though neither is likely to emerge unedited."