Globalstar CEO Jay Monroe said he expects progress this year...
Globalstar CEO Jay Monroe said he expects progress this year on its FCC petition for a rulemaking on obtaining authority for a terrestrial low-power service (TLPS). “We expect to hear from the FCC shortly regarding how it plans to proceed…
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with our petition, and we continue to believe that they will issue a notice of proposed rulemaking in the near future and complete the proceeding by the year’s end,” he said last week during the company’s fourth quarter 2012 earnings teleconference. Globalstar filed the petition last year (CD Nov 14 p26). The TLPS will expand the nation’s spectrum capacity and will relieve existing Wi-Fi congestion, he said. “We expect it to be managed over a carrier-grade network of access points in a controlled fashion to maximize the throughput capacity of the service and so as not to interfere with our satellite operations or any other wireless services in adjacent bands.” The mobile satellite service company is working with potential partners to hold field trials in various areas of the country, he said. Globalstar filed for experimental licenses with the FCC to test the service, he added. This year, the company is focusing on new products for voice and its duplex data modem market, he said. There are plans to introduce new products, like a consumer tracking device “that will broaden the market for inexpensive tracking of anything, anywhere, anytime,” he said. Last month, it completed its fourth launch campaign and “all previously launched satellites are in commercial service,” Monroe said. Revenue for Q4 2012 reached $19.1 million compared to $17.4 million in 2011, said Rebecca Clary, chief accounting officer. For the full year 2012, excluding revenue received from the termination of its Open Range agreement in 2011, total revenue increased 8 percent to $76.3 million from $70.8 million in 2011, she said.