The U.S. GPS Industry Council wants the FCC to ensure limitations...
The U.S. GPS Industry Council wants the FCC to ensure limitations on out-of-band emissions (OOBE) for AWS-4 systems, to avoid interference to GPS activity. All GPS parties in proceedings around using AWS spectrum for a terrestrial service have a common…
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understanding with Dish Network on “the appropriate OOBE limits for AWS-4 systems with regard to GPS,” USGIC said in an ex parte filing in docket 12-70 (http://xrl.us/bntevb). Those agreed-upon OOBE values should be included in the forthcoming order, and the resulting AWS-4 authorizations “need to reflect that AWS-4 operations will be subject to OOBE limits” in its agreement with Dish, USGIC said. The USGIC reiterated the agreement that it reached with the DBS company ensures conditions that are sufficient to alleviate concerns with OOBE from the 2000-2020 MHz and 2180-2200 MHz bands into radionavigation satellite service systems (http://xrl.us/bntevu). Dish is vying for use of wireless spectrum for a terrestrial network. A similar network proposed by LightSquared has been stalled due to interference issues raised by USGIC and other GPS entities, prompting the FCC to propose to end a temporary waiver to that company that would have allowed the network to be built out.