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The FCC characterized the combined spectrum relocation and accelerated clearing opportunity for the five operators as roughly $15,000,000,000.
The five operators identified by the FCC can collectively earn $9,700,000,000 in accelerated clearing payments by moving C-band customers out of the 300 megahertz band two years ahead of the 2025 deadline.
The FCC found that Hispasat had not previously demonstrated proof of providing regular C-band services in the United States and that Hispasat later claimed a customer dating back to 2017.
The FCC voted on 2020-02-28 to proceed with an auction plan that covers spectrum relocation costs for Intelsat, SES, Eutelsat, Telesat, and Embratel Star One.
Intelsat stands to receive $4,860,000,000 in accelerated clearing payments from the FCC for rapidly exiting C-band.
Intelsat estimated that $800,000,000 of those C-band clearing costs must be spent by June 2021 before receiving any FCC reimbursement.
Intelsat seeks nearly $5,000,000,000 from the FCC spectrum program as part of its restructuring.
Swarm did not receive an FCC license to deploy and operate a 150-satellite constellation until October 2019, preventing commercial satellite launches before that date.
An Intelsat satellite order could remain intact through a bankruptcy filing if Intelsat can convince creditors the contract is essential to obtaining $4,860,000,000 in accelerated clearing payments from the FCC.
The FCC gave Intelsat and SES until the 2020-05-31 to confirm their intent to participate in the incentive plan for accelerated C-band clearing payments.
Viasat extended its commitment to the FCC’s Keep America Connected Initiative through 2020-06-30.
The House Armed Services Committee asked each of the five FCC commissioners to confirm that they received a briefing from the Department of Defense on the classified test data contained in the Department of Transportation Adjacent Band Compatibility Assessment from April 2018.
The House Armed Services Committee sent a 2020-05-07 letter asking the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its approval of Ligado’s proposal to use portions of the L-band spectrum for a 0.005 kg cellular network.
The 2020-05-07 letter asserts that the FCC order did not comply with Section 1698 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which prevents the commission from approving commercial terrestrial operations in certain portions of the L-band until 90 days after the commission resolves concerns of harmful interference to GPS devices.
The House Armed Services Committee asked each of the five FCC commissioners to provide by 2020-05-14 copies of the legal analysis that led to their decision on Ligado.
The FCC draft regulations included a forfeitable bond of up to $100,000,000 that operators would lose if they failed to properly dispose of satellites after end of life.
The Department of Defense was under the impression that the FCC would deny Ligado’s license modification request prior to the 2020-04-20 decision.
The Pentagon will formally appeal the Federal Communications Commission’s unanimous 2020-04-20 approval of Ligado’s proposal to create a cellular network by repurposing a portion of radio spectrum adjacent to GPS.
DoD officials were scrambling to figure out how to move forward following the FCC’s 2020-04-20 order approving Ligado’s proposal.
The Department of Defense received a draft of the FCC’s order in October and immediately rejected the draft.