The FCC set the incumbent split itself and rejected operator-commissioned methodology work
As the brief logged it
FCC 26-46 explicitly finds that neither SES's nor Eutelsat's proposed allocation approach "provides an appropriate estimate of the likely relative contributions," discarding among other things a Eutelsat-commissioned Analysys Mason report evaluating three methodologies, and substitutes a Commission-derived contribution estimate. Where a regulator is dividing a fixed pool among incumbents whose relative contribution is genuinely hard to measure, the revealed preference is to design the formula in-house. That is the closest available precedent for how the EC might handle a 2 GHz MSS reallocation among four contesting claimants, and it argues against the assumption that a well-resourced operator can shape the split through consultancy submissions.
Provenance
Logged in the brief of 27 July 2026.
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