Dish Network's internal do-not-call (IDNC) list is two separate, distinct lists -- phone numbers for do-not-call requests made to it and numbers for do-not-call requests made to retailers that then shared the numbers with the company -- and a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class-action complaint improperly conflates them, Dish said in a brief (in Pacer) filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Greensboro, North Carolina. Dish dealer Satellite Systems Network (SSN) had no relationship with other retailers on that list or any obligation to honor do-not-call requests made to other retailers, so there's no basis for IDNC class claims against SSN, Dish said, asking that any IDNC class claims based on the retailer list be rejected or that a question be added to the verdict sheet that would let a jury do that. Counsel for plaintiff Thomas Krakauer didn't comment Tuesday.

Preliminary design review for the first two ViaSat-3 satellites is done, ViaSat said in a news release Monday. Now, detailed design work can begin, with the first of the Ka-band ViaSat-3 satellites expected to launch in 2019, it said. ViaSat said it will build the satellite payload and integrate it into a Boeing payload module.

SoftBank is putting $1 billion into satellite operator OneWeb, with the money to go toward OneWeb setting up a high-volume satellite production facility on Kennedy Space Center land in Florida, the Japanese conglomerate said in a news release Monday. The facility is expected to employ 3,000 within four years, with OneWeb starting production there in 2018, it said. Other investors have put in an additional $200 million, SoftBank said. SoftBank Group Director Ronald Fisher will join OneWeb's board, it said. SoftBank is the majority owner of wireless carrier Sprint. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said the development follows his meeting with President-elect Donald Trump, during which Son said he “shared my commitment to investing and creating jobs” in the U.S. (see 1612060073). “This is the first step in that commitment,” Son said.

EchoStar's EchoStar XIX satellite launched Sunday and is expected to go live in Q1. In a news release Monday, the company said the Ka-band satellite will be part of the HughesNet Gen5 high-speed satellite broadband service to be introduced in Q1.

The international travel channel Travelxp 4K will debut on SES’ Ultra HD distribution platform next month through North American pay-TV providers, the satellite company announced Monday. Travelxp 4K will launch on the SES-1 satellite, one of three that host the company’s Ultra HD distribution platform in the region, it said. SES now has signed distribution agreements with more than 30 Ultra HD channels globally, it said. Travelxp 4K will showcase global travel content in 10-bit Rec.2020 color space with hybrid-log gamma high dynamic range, SES said.

Marine IT and VSAT provider OmniAccess, which uses Telesat capacity for mobile broadband and cruise ships and yachts in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is expanding its relationship with the satellite company to bring that service to superyachts and passenger vessels in the Caribbean, Telesat said in a news release Thursday.

Ligado, pushing use of a cloud-based content delivery network as a way to distribute National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite data (see 1607280022), plans to test a beta version of such a CDN in conjunction with George Mason University. In a news release Thursday, it said they plan to jointly evaluate weather data delivery using the CDN, including speed and reliability. It also said the CDN potentially could expand to provide free NOAA data access to schools, libraries and the public. Some in the weather data community have been skeptical of use of a CDN to address Ligado terrestrial low-power service interference with NOAA satellite downlinks (see 1611250033).

Saying the Fox and CBS TV contracts that the NFL produced on discovery were redacted to the point of being meaningless, plaintiffs against the NFL and DirecTV over NFL Sunday Ticket antitrust concerns (see 1512300027) want the court to order it to provide unredacted copies, they said. In a position statement (in Pacer) filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, the plaintiffs of 27 consolidated class-action complaints said the league cited portions of the contracts in a motion to dismiss and they in turn agreed to limit discovery during the pendency of the motion to dismiss as long as the NFL agreed to produce those contracts. What the league provided was nearly fully redacted copies to the point where one network even redacted portions of its NFL contract that already had been filed, the plaintiffs said. The NFL didn't comment Thursday.

Globalstar needs to clarify the protocol and operating parameters of its revised terrestrial low power service broadband proposal to make more clear what kind of interference problems it poses for unlicensed users of the 2.4 GHz band, said Hearing Industries Association (HIA) in a filing Wednesday in docket 13-213. Globalstar's original proposal involved IEEE 802.11 protocol technology, but its revision (see 1611100031) isn't clear on what technology would be employed, so it's impossible to say whether the out-of-band emission limits would be effective, HIA said. The group said it would back symmetrical OOBE limits that protect adjacent band operations on either side of Globalstar's spectrum. It said that of the company's OOBE proposals, its 43 dB OOBE requirement could be a problem for hearing aid receivers operating near the edge of Globalstar's range but is still the preferred route. HIA said if the satellite firm uses LTE technology with control signals, that could help assuage interference concerns since the control signals could be moved from adjacent band edges easily. Globalstar didn't comment Thursday.

Due to potential problems stemming from a Sirius XM Telephone Consumer Protection Act settlement website, the deadline for cash TCPA claims was extended from Nov. 26 to Dec. 12 and a fourth round of 5 million email notices to class members was sent out about that extension, counsel for the satellite radio company and for the class-action suit plaintiffs said in a joint memorandum (in Pacer) Tuesday. In the joint filing in U.S. District Court in Newport News, Virginia, the lawyers said the problems revolved around an incorrect filing deadline date on a settlement claims sites that, for the five-plus days it was wrong, could have dissuaded class members from filing a cash claim for part of the $35 million SiriusXM settlement regarding the company's alleged TCPA violations (see 1606080019). The company laid out its corrective steps, saying it's visited conductor sites with an expert to confirm the changes made by those vendors to separate autodialed systems from the manual dialing systems used for dialing mobile phones. A fairness hearing on the settlement is scheduled for Tuesday.