Technologie i telekomunikacja · 3.11.1995

Direct Broadcast Satellite Service

The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that proposes a number of new rules for the Direct Broadcast Satellite (``DBS'') service, including the use of competitive bidding to resolve mutually exclusive applications for DBS resources. The Commission seeks comment on all of its tentative conclusions and proposed rules. As part of its decision in Advanced Communications Corporation, FCC 95-428 (released October 18, 1995), the Commission reclaimed for the public 51 channels of DBS spectrum at two orbital locations (27 channels at 110 deg. W.L. and 24 channels at 148 deg. W.L.) that had previously been assigned to Advanced Communications Corporation (``ACC''). The Commission proposes to revise rules and policies in the DBS service in order to update the current ``interim'' rules and to reassign, by auction or other means, channels at orbital locations previously assigned to ACC.