Dish Network is prodding a U.S. District judge about a pending motion to dismiss its suit against Univision. A letter (in Pacer) last week to Judge Alison Nathan of Manhattan in docket 17-cv-05148-AJN reminded her that Univision filed a motion Oct. 13 to dismiss the complaint alleging the broadcaster breached a distribution agreement by streaming some Mexican soccer matches via Facebook Live without also providing rights to Dish. The MVPD opposed the motion and said it has been 270 days since the motion was fully briefed.
More-specific criteria for determining when emergency alert system obligations come into play for certain fixed satellite service licensees take effect Sept. 24, says an FCC notice for Thursday's Federal Register. Those criteria are part of partial approval in July of a 2005 petition for reconsideration by satellite operators (see 1807250005).
DirecTV wants to temporarily move its T15 satellite from 102.75 degrees west to 100.85 degrees west and operate it there. In an International Bureau filing Friday, it said it wants approval to start the 30-day drift effective Sept. 4, and the relocation is to fill a temporary need for more Ku-band DBS capacity at the nominal 101 degrees west orbital location. It said it plans to file a separate special temporary authority request to relocate T8, currently at 100.85 degrees west, to 100.75 degree west once traffic is transferred from T8 to T15 and to file an additional, 180-day STA request to operate T15 at 100.85 degrees until it returns to its permanently licensed orbital slot.
Comments are due Sept. 7 on the state of voice, video, audio and data service delivery via satellite for the communications market report required in Q4 under the Ray Baum Act, said the FCC International Bureau Friday. The public notice wants input on criteria that could be used for such an analysis and on whether laws, regulations or market practices are a barrier to competitive entry.
The cruise ship market's demand for bandwidth points to "the bandwidth battles ... only beginning," Northern Sky Research analyst Brad Grady blogged Wednesday. He noted 570 Gbps of capacity growth is expected by 2027.
SES wants U.S. market access for the Gibraltar-licensed NSS-11 satellite. In an International Bureau filing Wednesday, it said approval would let the company meet Northwest U.S. and Pacific region demand for Ku-band services from the satellite's 176 degrees east orbital slot, and that it wants to start service to U.S. customers by Jan. 1. It said the satellite was launched in October 2000.
Boeing will buy small satellite services company Millennium Space Systems to expand its satellite and space portfolio, it said Thursday. Boeing expects to close on Millennium in Q3.
The FCC approved another non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite constellation with the release Thursday of an authorization for Karousel, as expected (see 1808100037). The agency also signed off on NGSO constellation applications by Audacy, O3b (see 1806050057) SpaceX, OneWeb and Space Norway (see 1803300014).
The "dramatic," 99.4 percent reduction in power in the 1526-1536 MHz band for Ligado's proposed ancillary terrestrial IoT network (see 1805310069) was aimed at addressing the concerns of federal, nonfederal, aviation and non-aviation users of nearby spectrum, Ligado Chief Legal Officer Valerie Green told FCC Office of Engineering and Technology and Wireless Bureau staffers, recounted a docket 11-109 posting Wednesday.
Ligado wants to relocate its MSAT-2 satellite from 103.3 degrees west to 106.5 degrees west, it said in an FCC International Bureau special temporary authority request posted Friday.