{"id":83387,"date":"2012-03-16T23:18:43","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dish-closes-dbsd-terrestar-acquisitions-prepares-for-fcc-spectrum-nprm\/"},"modified":"2012-03-16T23:18:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T15:18:43","slug":"dish-closes-dbsd-terrestar-acquisitions-prepares-for-fcc-spectrum-nprm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dish-closes-dbsd-terrestar-acquisitions-prepares-for-fcc-spectrum-nprm\/","title":{"rendered":"Dish Closes DBSD, TerreStar Acquisitions; Prepares for FCC Spectrum NPRM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-16-12] <b>Dish Network<\/b> has closed its acquisitions of the reorganized <b>DBSD North America<\/b> and substantially all of the assets of <b>TerreStar Networks<\/b>, Dish Network confirmed March 13.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;The U.S. pay-TV operator has invested more than $3 billion to secure the licenses for the 40 MHz of nationwide 2 GHz wireless spectrum it acquired as part of the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cWe look forward to working with the [<b>U.S. Federal Communications Commission<\/b>] FCC on its forthcoming Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and remain committed to using this spectrum to help the [Obama] administration and the FCC solve the nation\u2019s spectrum crunch,\u201d Dish Network said in a company statement. &nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cIn parallel, Dish will initiate efforts to enhance the performance and capabilities of handsets that utilize the terrestrial and satellite links while exploring its options for a broader market entry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-16-12] Dish Network has closed its acquisitions of the reorganized DBSD North America and substantially all of the assets of TerreStar Networks, Dish Network confirmed March 13. &nbsp; &nbsp;The U.S. pay-TV operator has invested more than $3 billion to secure the licenses for the 40 MHz of nationwide 2 GHz wireless spectrum it acquired as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}