The YouTube app is integrated into Dish's Hopper 3 DVR, letting its subscribers view the Alphabet/Google content without changing devices or inputs, Dish Network said in a news release Friday. It came in a software update to Hopper 3 set-tops, it said. Dish is the only nationwide pay-TV provider to integrate YouTube into its set-top box, it said.

Dish Network and plaintiffs in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class-action complaint are at odds over jury verdict instructions for the upcoming trial in U.S. District Court in Greensboro, North Carolina. In a trial memo filed Tuesday, the company and plaintiffs Thomas Krakauer and the others said they agreed on numerous issues on the verdict sheet, but some issues remain contested. Krakauer and the others said a point of contention is whether the number of calls or the phone numbers should be on the verdict sheet. They said they plan to introduce that information as evidence "and there is no need to re-state that evidence on the verdict sheet, and no need to force the jury to engage in mathematical computations." Dish said Krakauer and the others object to having the jury decide whether the class members actually received the telemarketing calls at issue or are the subscribers of the phone numbers called, but the court should toss out the plaintiffs' proposal to have a claims administrator post-trial decide this, instead of the jury. "There is no justification for relieving Plaintiff of his burden at trial on this one issue," Dish said. It also said the jury should be given the choice of assessing damages per call violation or on an aggregate basis. Either way, Dish added, the court can make sure any damages award doesn't exceed $500 per call.

To meet potential service demand at 169.2 degrees east, Intelsat wants temporarily to relocate its 1R satellite there, it said in an FCC International Bureau application Tuesday for special temporary authority for the drift: 1R would move from 50.1 degrees west, with the drift starting Jan. 1 and taking roughly four months. At 169.2 degrees east, 1R will operate using 5925-6425 MHz, 13750-14500 MHz and 11700-12200 MHz uplinks and 3700-4200 MHz, 10950-11200 MHz and 11450-11950 MHz downlinks, the company said.

NTIA's push for amending the U.S. table of frequency allocations so federal earth stations communicating with commercial satellites get better interference protection (see 1610040019) could create imbalance in the commercial launch service sector through limits on the flexibility different providers need, Lockheed Martin said in an FCC ex parte filing posted Monday in docket 13-115. The company also backed keeping the status quo in spectrum allocations used for launches and said the FCC special temporary authority process "provides adequate spectrum access on an equitable basis." Lockheed Martin said if the FCC does change allocations to support commercial space launches, the new rules need to accommodate current launch providers: NTIA's proposal to restrict which frequencies nonfederal launch providers can access would mean bigger hurdles for some commercial launch providers than for others. The company urged the FCC to allow competitive service providers that routinely use any new nonfederal allocation in the 2200-2290 MHz band the flexibility to go beyond a five megahertz bandwidth when necessary. The filing recapped a meeting involving Lockheed Martin Director-Technical Regulatory Affairs Scott Kotler with International Bureau personnel, including Satellite Division Head Jose Albuquerque. NTIA didn't comment Tuesday.

With GPS Adjacent-Band Compatibility (ABC) Assessment L-band testing done, the next step is coming up with tolerable equivalent isotropically radiated power (EIRP) levels to protect GPS from adjacent band interference, the Transportation Department told us Tuesday. Those tolerable EIRP levels will come from radiated test interference tolerance masks, use case scenarios representing relevant applications and services, and propagation modeling, Transportation said. The agency presented its ABC testing results Friday at a workshop and said there are no further plans for testing. That testing comes as Ligado has been trying to get FCC approval for its broadband terrestrial low-power service in spectrum adjacent to GPS and arguing that the proposed power and out-of-band emission levels protect GPS (see 1602250032). Ligado in a statement said it's "glad that DOT's nearly two years of testing is finally over. Now the government agencies with authority over our nation’s spectrum policy, the FCC and the NTIA, can take this information and all the other studies into account and make critical decisions. It is odd that the DOT study did not address at all the actual harm to consumers, as the other studies did. DOT also made clear that it recommends a mask based on the worst device it could find. Others will have to decide whether that is sound policy.” DOT said the reacquisition tests that were part of wired testing showed that for some receivers, there wasn't significant margin beyond the interference power causing 1 dB degradation. The degradation was particularly apparent for lower-power GPS signals, like those that would be associated with operating in challenged environments such as urban canyons or under foliage or with low-elevation satellites in open skies, DOT said. When asked about what its test findings might mean for actual device performance, the agency said the wired testing results "suggest exceeding the 1 dB interference level can adversely affect receiver performance by slowing satellite acquisition times." The department said radiated test results -- which show "the more comprehensive view of adjacent band interference causing a 1 dB degradation" in carrier to noise ratio -- were nonetheless "in good agreement ... when the performance of the active antennas were taken into consideration."

The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge by former LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja of terms of the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, denying his petition Monday (see here) and as expected (see 1610120025). The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in May also denied his petition for rehearing (see 1605120001). Ahuja protested shares in reorganized LightSquared that went to hedge fund Harbinger Capital, a majority shareholder in pre-bankruptcy LightSquared, in exchange for the company's receiving Harbinger's rights in an array of lawsuits. Bijan Amini of Storch Amini, counsel for Ahuja, said his client was disappointed. LightSquared now is Ligado.

SES hopes to move its AMC-6 satellite from 72 degrees west to 67 degrees west and swap it with AMC-3, which then will relocate to 72 degrees west, the satellite company said in an FCC International Bureau filing Friday: The swap will let it "better respond to customer requirements" at the two orbital locations and improve its fleet management. The relocated AMC-6 will operate at 67 degrees west in conjunction with AMC-4, which already is there, SES said.

Globalstar's critiques of Microsoft's warnings of interference to its Xbox 360S wireless controllers from the satellite company's broadband terrestrial low-power service (see 1610140057) are themselves somewhat problematic, Blue Sky Information Services said in an FCC filing posted Monday in docket 13-213. Globalstar and its Roberson & Associates consultant criticized the Microsoft testing regimen for not using industry standard interference measurement methodologies, but it was a similar "'worst case' test regime" Globalstar used in the past when pointing to interference concerns about Iridium's use of the L-band, Blue Sky said. It said Globalstar arguments to the contrary, the 2483-2500 MHz band is fully utilized, with those users including unlicensed consumer products that rely on a low-noise environment in the 2473-2484 MHz band. Given the massive Globalstar investment in satellite infrastructure, the FCC's priority arguably should be "the regulatory barriers that have prevented the promise of [the ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) of its mobile satellite service] from reaching fruition," Blue Sky said, saying that would mean "providing full, un-gated ATC authority in the 2484-2500 MHz spectrum." Globalstar didn't comment.

Dish Network and Travelers Property Casualty settled their legal fight over whether the insurer is responsible for defense costs as Dish fights robocall claims by the FTC and California, Illinois, North Carolina and Ohio (see 0903260144). In an order (in Pacer) Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Tom Schanzle-Haskins gave them 60 days to file a stipulation of dismissal and proposed dismissal order. U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn of Denver ruled (in Pacer) in March in favor of Ace American Insurance in a similar suit the insurer brought against Dish in 2013.

NTIA's push for some exemptions for government earth stations operating in the C-, Ka- and Ku-bands wouldn't achieve what it wants and doesn't incorporate FCC Part 25 rules into NITA federal radio frequency management rules, EchoStar representatives told the commission. An ex parte filing posted Friday in docket 13-115 said the company urged the FCC to reject the NTIA exemptions and instead make federal earth station operations subject to the same licensing, coordination, interference protection and technical requirements as commercial earth stations. They also should be subject to public notice and public comment, EchoStar said. It said commercial licensees shouldn't have to operate under NTIA coordination requirements, and federal earth station operators instead should have to monitor FCC PNs and comment on applications that might affect their operations the way commercial licensees must. The commission also should have sole jurisdiction over enforcement actions for federal earth station use of nonfederal spectrum, EchoStar said. Co-primary use of fixed satellite service spectrum by government earth station operators without such regulatory parity "would result in preferential treatment of one class of applicants over another with no public interest basis," said the satellite company. The filing recapped meetings that included Senior Vice President-Regulatory Affairs Jennifer Manner and FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Deputy Chief Ronald Repasi. NTIA in a letter in the docket to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler last month said the communications agency should add primary federal allocations or remove restrictions in the 3700-4200 MHz, 5925-6425 MHz, 11.7-12.2 GHz, 13.75-14.5 GHz, 18.3-19.3 GHz, 19.7-20.2 GHz, 28.35-29.1 GHz and 29.25-30 GHz bands