Dish Network Corp.’s hopes to start building a new wireless network have been dealt a setback by the Federal Communications Commission, which denied the satellite-TV provider’s request for a needed waiver and opted instead for a formal deliberation that will take until the end of the year.
Dish needs FCC approval to use satellite spectrum to support a ground-based cellphone network and had hoped to receive a waiver this month. The FCC’s decision isn’t likely to doom Dish’s plans but will push them back— something Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen warned last week would make the project riskier.
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