Iridium further urged the FCC to consolidate consideration of its...
Iridium further urged the FCC to consolidate consideration of its petition and Globalstar’s petition on Big low earth orbit (LEO) spectrum into a single rulemaking. The petitions “arise from exactly the same factual background and raise highly interrelated issues,” Iridium…
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said in its opposition to Globalstar in docket RM-11685 (http://bit.ly/Z7bnny). Globalstar urged the FCC to reject Iridium’s request for consolidation, claiming that Globalstar’s petition allowing it to create a terrestrial low-power service should be separate (CD Feb 25 p16). Combined consideration would serve the policy goals of consolidation to promote efficiency and administrative convenience, Iridium said. It also would be consistent with Big LEO band precedent, it said: Though Globalstar suggests that it will focus first on deploying its 2.4 GHz solution, “its proposal to remove the ATC [ancillary terrestrial component] protections would apply to the entire Big LEO band."