With a couple of exceptions, commenters in the proceeding on...
With a couple of exceptions, commenters in the proceeding on Globalstar’s petition for a rulemaking on use of its spectrum for terrestrial services don’t object to the FCC initiating such a rulemaking, Globalstar said in a statement. Initial comments in…
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docket RM-11685 were due last week and replies are due Jan. 29 (CD Jan 15 p5). Most of the commenters urged the FCC to address concerns regarding the commercial roll-out of Globalstar’s proposed terrestrial low power service (TLPS), Globalstar said. The mobile satellite service (MSS) company said it’s not requesting spectrum to be licensed to it or “that it receive interference protection from unlicensed use in Channel 11,” it said. Globalstar doesn’t seek “to displace any current or future unlicensed use in that part of the ISM [industrial, scientific, medical] band, it said. U.S. GPS Industry Council said it doesn’t object to adoption of the near-term rule changes proposed by Globalstar. But, “any later proposal to use Globalstar’s L-band MSS spectrum for terrestrial broadband applications must ensure that the installed user base of the Global Positioning System is protected from desensitization and overload,” it said in its comments (http://xrl.us/boa8qb). If Globalstar’s long-term plans are adopted, it will be necessary “to implement appropriate OOBE [out-of-band-emissions] limitations and overload protection of GPS applications in the RNSS [radio navigation satellite service] band.” Iridium urged the FCC to reject the proposal to introduce LTE mobile broadband operations to the 1.6 GHz Big LEO band. The proposal “may restrict some future investment in its MSS network in favor of its terrestrial deployment,” it said (http://xrl.us/bobdwn). The petition lacks sufficient information “to offer the public a meaningful opportunity to analyze the proposal and the potential for harmful interference,” Clearwire said in its comments (http://xrl.us/bobdv4). The TLPS “would severely diminish the range, functionality and throughput of Clearwire’s system,” it said.