Broadcasters are wending through a C-band repack now operating on an accelerated timeline with completion slated for Dec. 2023. The process is humming along much more smoothly than the RF repack that preceded it. Above, Sinclair Broadcast Group HEVC uplink gear.
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Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) has completed technology upgrades associated with SES's Phase one transition plan for C-band spectrum in just nine months, it announced on Monday.
In their recent meetings with FCC staff, executives from SES and Intelsat offered nothing but sunshine and rainbows in discussing their efforts to clear out their respective operations from recently auctioned C-band spectrum. SES and Intelsat are creating jobs and paying billions of dollars to small and large businesses throughout the United States, wrote Christophe De Hauwer, Petra Vorwig and Steve Corda of SES and Peter Davidson and Tom McNamara of Intelsat, of their recent meeting with FCC officials in Washington, DC. SES and Intelsat . are on track to satisfy their clearing obligations by the commission s accelerated relocation deadlines.
The situation is a bit different 100 miles away, in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.