DirecTV and Dish Network continued to urge the...
DirecTV and Dish Network continued to urge the FCC not to amend its schedule of regulatory fees to treat direct broadcast satellite operators like cable operators. The FCC lacks legal authority to engage in such a permitted amendment under the…
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Communications Act, “and cannot justify such action under the Administrative Procedure Act,” the satellite TV companies said in an ex parte filing posted Monday in docket 14-92 (http://bit.ly/1nbcDoc). DBS operators have never generated, “and do not generate now, anything approaching the regulatory costs that cable operators do,” they said. Adopting such a proposal “would raise any other number of logistical and implementation concerns, none of which have been sufficiently considered,” they said.