Dish Slams DirecTV's 12 GHz Claims

Dish Network urged the FCC to reject DirecTV's analysis of the viability of 5G/satellite sharing of the 12 GHz band (see 2208020049) in a filing posted Tuesday in docket 20-443. “DIRECTV effectively admits that its contested claims of ‘close to 100%’ interference potential do not apply to the entire country,” Dish said: “Even if the assumptions made by DIRECTV were all correct (which they are not), the nationwide percentage of dishes threatened with interference would be a lower number because the number of DIRECTV dishes is a small fraction of the dishes that DIRECTV has assumed in the vicinity of a macro-cell tower.”