FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Says Discount Going to Large Company ‘Makes a Mockery’ of Program

Regulator Objects to Dish’s Wireless Deal

FCC Commissioner Says Discount Going to Large Company ‘Makes a Mockery’ of Program

By 

RYAN KNUTSON and

 

THOMAS GRYTA

Feb. 2, 2015 12:01 a.m. ET

A top regulator is objecting to Dish Network Corp. ’s claim on more than $3 billion in discounts aimed at small business in the government’s auction of wireless licenses.

Ajit Pai, one of two Republicans on the five-member Federal Communications Commission, plans to ask FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler on Monday to investigate the award, saying that giving such a lucrative break to a company as large as Dish “makes a mockery” of the small-business discount program.

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