SNR Wireless Asks License Transfers to Dish, FCC Tells Court

SNR Wireless exercised its put terms to transfer its licenses to a Dish Network subsidiary, the FCC confirmed Wednesday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. In a docket 18-1209 filing, the agency filed a copy of SNR's March 18 application for its license transfers. Per the application, transfer of the licenses to Dish subsidiary American AWS-3 Wireless III would let it quickly deploy SNR's licensed spectrum as part of Dish's 5G broadband network development, "resulting in the SNR spectrum being put to use years ahead of its final construction benchmark. American consumers will benefit both from improved and expanded wireless services offered by DISH and from competition in the marketplace for mobile broadband services." The state of SNR's ownership came up during D.C. Circuit oral argument in January in Dish designated entities SNR and Northstar Wireless' appeal of the FCC denying them AWS-3 auction credits (see 2201140032).