Dish Defends $3 Billion Small-Business Discount in FCC Auction

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Dish Network Corp. defended winning $3 billion in small-business discounts at a federal airwaves auction, telling a U.S. senator it used the same tactics as other companies.

The joint bidding arrangements used during the auction that ended in January are “commonplace,” Dish said in a reply Monday to a query from Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune, a South Dakota Republican.