Intelsat, SES Warn About Payment for Vacating C-Band Airwaves

Satellite companies including Intelsat S.A. are renewing their case for quickly getting off 5G-friendly airwaves—as long as they get paid.

The C-Band Alliance, a satellite company consortium consisting of Luxembourg-owned Intelsat and SES S.A. and Canada’s Telesat, told the Federal Communications Commission in a Jan. 14 filing that they will swiftly vacate frequencies they now hold the rights to, if they get “fair and appropriate financial incentives” to do so.

It would be “legally perilous” for the commission to force the satellite operators off the spectrum involuntarily, the consortium said.

The satellite companies are renewing calls for financial compensation as ...