EchoStar and Hughes continued to urge the FCC...

EchoStar and Hughes continued to urge the FCC to implement the streamlining, clarifying and simplifying of its Part 25 rules as part of the FCC process reform effort. They also stressed the need to modernize the ITU registration process “to adjust the speed of business decision-making, allowing potential applicants to request FCC submission of Advance Publication filings to the ITU” before filing satellite license applications, they said in an ex parte filing in docket 14-25 (http://bit.ly/1i2Mh0G). The commission should establish more operational flexibility for geostationary satellite orbit operators “to reach individualized coordination agreements with other operators that may depart nominally from the commission’s two-degree spacing policy,” it said. The filing pertains to a meeting last week with International Bureau Chief Mindel De La Torre and bureau staff.