Amazon's Kuiper Pushing for Constellation OK; SES/O3b Lobbying Against
SES/O3b and Amazon's Kuiper have been lobbying the FCC in recent days over Kuiper's proposed broadband mega constellation. SES/O3b, to aides to Chairman Ajit Pai and the regular commissioners, argued letting Kuiper bypass a new processing round would undermine the…
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competitive certainty and stability a processing round gives and could chill investment in already approved non-geostationary orbit networks. SES/O3b said bypassing a processing round would burden authorized systems like its own and limit their capacity. Kuiper, to a Pai aide and the International Bureau, urged "expeditious" approval of its application and said existing licensees are trying "to saddle new entrants ... with heavy-handed regulations."