Globalstar continued to urge the FCC to reject...
Globalstar continued to urge the FCC to reject Iridium’s petition for an NPRM to revisit the band plan in the Big Low Earth Orbit. Iridium’s request is an “unsupported” and “competitively-driven attempt” to capture almost 3 MHz of Big LEO…
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spectrum “assigned to and used by Globalstar,” it said in an ex parte filing in docket RM-11685 (http://bit.ly/11oz29k). Iridium filed the petition this year (CD Feb 13 p14). Globalstar also asked the commission to open a rulemaking to reform the FCC’s terrestrial use rules in the Big LEO band, it said. Globalstar made the request through a petition (CD Nov 14 p26). The deployment of its proposed terrestrial low-power service “will quickly add 22 MHz to the nation’s wireless broadband spectrum inventory,” it said. The filing recounted a meeting last week with Globalstar’s general counsel and Michael Steffen, aide to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, Globalstar said.