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FCC Rejects BIU Petition Over Intelsat Licensing Fight

A third party's petition that reinstates Spectrum Five's attempt to get a pair of Intelsat satellites' FCC licenses revoked is a private contractual dispute between petitioner BIU and SF, the full commission said in an opinion and order released Thursday.…

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As such, it's better that a court, not the FCC, handle the situation, the opinion and order said. The docket 20-399 order dismissed BIU's application for review seeking to undo an Enforcement Bureau rejection of a BIU petition to have the SF complaint alleging license term violations by Intelsat reinstated (see 2311150031).