FCC may change rules that gave Dish $3 billion in small business discounts
Earlier this year, the FCC took in $44.9 billion in bids through a wireless spectrum auction, as the wireless industry’s biggest companies battled it out for airwave licenses. But quickly, some of that money proved controversial: FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai accused Dish Network of manipulating small business discounts, paying $3 billion less in the auction than it would have otherwise.
Today, the FCC took early steps toward changing that. Chairman Tom Wheeler has circulated a “public notice” asking for comments from other FCC commissioners on possible reforms to the system, Reuters reports. Dish took the $3 billion by operating through small shell companies that it’s invested in, and the proposals would theoretically prevent that from…
Source:: The Verge
