Ignore Late Dish/EchoStar Response, SpaceX Tells FCC

Saying ignoring FCC deadlines "has become DISH’s hallmark in this proceeding," SpaceX told the Space Bureau last week the agency should ignore the days-late Dish and EchoStar response to SpaceX's opposition to a Dish and EchoStar petition to deny. Dish didn't comment Monday. It and EchoStar petitioned the FCC to reject SpaceX's request to use the AWS-4 band and adjacent 2020-2025 MHz band for mobile satellite service direct to handsets (see 2303150048). Dish emailed us that its response filing "was not late: it was early. The Commission has not even placed SpaceX's application to use the 2 GHz band on Public Notice, or established a briefing schedule. Nor should it: granting SpaceX's modification would be contrary to more than a decade of Commission precedent, and would allow SpaceX to essentially block DISH from using the 2 GHz spectrum for the nation’s first greenfield 5G network.”