another $3 Billion in Corporate Welfare

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https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-331802A1.pdf

claimed over $3 billion dollars in taxpayer funded discounts when purchasing spectrum in the AWS 3 auction.

When a $14Billion per year Company claims Small Business Tax Credits we all should be outraged. Although this will probably end up only being a small article buried in the Business section of the MSM.

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1. You should post this in the other thread this morning about cutting cable/satellite

Last Friday, the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau disclosed that two companies in
which DISH Network Corp. (DISH) has an 85% ownership stake claimed over $3 billion dollars in
taxpayer-funded discounts when purchasing spectrum in the AWS-3 auction.

Those discounts came through the FCC’s designed entity (DE) program, which is intended to
make it easier for small businesses to purchase spectrum and compete with large corporations. DISH,
however, has annual revenues of almost $14 billion, a market capitalization of over $32 billion, and over
14 million customers. Its participation makes a mockery of the DE program.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026167285