FCC’s Pair of EchoStar Proceedings See Both Sides Digging In
Kristian Stout, Director of Innovation Policy at ICLE is quoted in this Communications Daily article about the FCC’s twin EchoStar proceedings in dockets 22-212 and 25-173, which cover the legality of longer buildout deadlines and the impact of FCC action on future investments. Read the full story here.
Pointing to SFP’s initial comments questioning EchoStar’s buildout, Kristian Stout, director of innovation policy for the International Center for Law & Economics, said technical discrepancies in EchoStar filings potentially indicate that it’s not building the network it had committed to. It’s “entirely appropriate for the Commission to reconsider its continued tolerance for EchoStar’s warehousing practices — especially in light of what appear to be wildly exaggerated claims about what it has actually accomplished and what it committed to accomplish,” Stout said.