Competitive Fear Has Viasat Butting Into RDOF Review: SpaceX

Viasat keeps interjecting itself into the FCC's review of SpaceX's Rural Digital Opportunity Fund Phase I auction application "as though they are online comment sections, raising baseless complaints again and again," SpaceX said Thursday in docket 20-34. It said Viasat filings such as last week's (see 2112230041) are "desperate attacks against a competitor as Viasat seeks to leverage the regulatory process to protect its legacy technology." Viasat said it stands by its filings showing SpaceX's Starlink system would fall short in satisfying its RDOF commitments and raising questions about whether SpaceX is otherwise qualified to receive RDOF support. "In its recent letter, SpaceX once again refuses to address these material deficiencies in its application and instead asks the Commission to ignore them simply because Viasat is a competitor," it said.