Dish DEs Ask Appeal of AWS-3 Credits Fight Be Put on Pause

Dish Network-designated entities Northstar Wireless and SNR Wireless are asking an appellate court to hold in abeyance their appeal seeking a review of the FCC's July order (see 1807130003) reaffirming FCC Wireless Bureau procedures for the DEs to comply with the court's 2017 remand. In a consent motion (in Pacer, docket 18-1209) for abeyance filed Thursday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the two said the FCC is "proceeding with additional actions" that could give rise to more proceedings before the court related to the issues of the case and a consolidated case. They asked the cases be held in abeyance until those issues can be consolidated with the pending cases. The D.C. Circuit last year upheld FCC denial of AWS-3 auction bidding credits to the DEs but gave them a chance to negotiate a solution to Dish's de facto control (see 1708290012).