Kepler Sees 12 GHz ESIM Request Opposition

Dish Network and RS Access urged the FCC to deny Kepler Communications' license application to operate earth stations in motion (ESIM), in the 12.2 -12.7 GHz band, arguing approval could complicate an agency update of its 12 GHz sharing rules. ESIMs aren't authorized in the band, and Kepler hasn't shown its ESIM receivers won't expose U.S. fixed satellite service for consumers to interference, RS Access told the International Bureau in a filing Monday. Allowing ESIMs in the band "would collapse the carefully crafted existing spectrum sharing network" for non-geostationary orbit fixed satellite service and multichannel video distribution and data service co-primary users, it said. Dish also said Kepler "has an ample supply of spectrum" for its ESIM service already. Kepler didn't comment.