Incompas warns against revoking deadline extensions for communications licenses, stating it threatens investment in infrastructure. Companies like SpaceX and VTel Wireless have made their final arguments to the FCC, emphasizing the need for access to spectrum resources and questioning EchoStar's requests for extensions. EchoStar faces financial difficulties, having skipped debt-interest payments in light of FCC uncertainties. The situation raises concerns about its future viability and equitable treatment compared to other entities under similar circumstances.
Incompas, a communications industry trade group, said that revoking the deadline extension "would undermine regulatory certainty and threaten to disrupt ongoing investments in advanced network infrastructure, including EchoStar's important work to integrate Open RAN and satellite capabilities."
SpaceX urged the FCC "to ensure that valuable spectrum resources are not allowed to remain fallow but instead are made available to those who would put them to productive use to provide advanced services to consumers across the United States."
VTel Wireless, which was outbid by Dish in auctions for spectrum licenses, said that "nothing prevented EchoStar from meeting its final buildout deadlines; it simply made the business decision not to do so, at least until it faced the loss of its licenses."
EchoStar in financial trouble... said it made the decision "in light of the uncertainty raised by the Federal Communications Commission review."
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