No commitments, but U.S. Senate FCC hearing plays on C-Band satellite alliance’s court

by Peter B. de Selding

PARIS — A U.S. Senate committee spent a full morning grilling the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on its practices but the only comments on C-band spectrum clearing centered on how fast it could be done.

In the latest illustration that the C-Band Alliance of satellite operators may be about to win their case, the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee made no comments on how the 500-MHz slice of spectrum would be cleared, or whether allowing satellite operators -- all non-U.S.-based companies . . .

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