Dish Digesting Auction Rules, Could Be a Bidder

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Dish Network’s Alison Minea, the director and senior counsel of regulatory affairs for the satellite TV operator, says the company may be a player in the FCC’s 600 MHz incentive auction next spring. Minea, addressing the 2015 Competitive Carriers’ Association conference in Fort Lauderdale, FL. this week said the company is analyzing the auction rules and is figuring out what it will do, according to a FierceWireless report.
Minea’s statement comes two months after the FCC unanimously rejected $3.3 billion  in 25% discounts that two Dish affiliates – Northstar Wireless and SNR Wireless – sought in their winning bid in for AWS-3 spectrum licenses. The FCC gave the discount deal a thumbs down because it determined that the companies are effectively controlled by Dish. The two agreed to give up licenses they’d won earlier this year, potentially lucrative spectrum that mostly covered New York, Chicago and Boston. Sprint has already announced it will not participate in the FCC’s spring auction.

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