Enforcement Bureau Dismisses Intelsat Petition Reinstatement Request

Financier BIU hasn't proven that the withdrawal of the Spectrum Five petition seeking revocation of the Intelsat 30 and Intelsat 31 licenses for license term violations (see 2304130048) was due to fraud, the FCC Enforcement Bureau ordered this week in docket 20-399 as it dismissed and denied BIU's request to reinstate the petition. The order says BIU's reconsideration request came more than two weeks after the statutory deadline for seeking reconsideration. The bureau said the question of whether Spectrum Five had the authority to withdraw its petition "is solely a matter between BIU and Spectrum Five and is justiciable, if at all, in a court of competent jurisdiction and not by the Commission."