The FCC International Bureau dismissed an application from...
The FCC International Bureau dismissed an application from New Skies Satellites, which asked to modify a grant of U.S. access for its Netherlands-licensed NSS-806 satellite. New Skies wanted the modification to reflect the satellite’s relocation from 40.5 degrees west to…
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47.5 degrees west, and to allow it to provide fixed satellite services, the bureau said in a letter (http://bit.ly/1cZFxRy). The bureau said it found the application “internally inconsistent.” The application states that the satellite will provide FSS in the 6425-6650 MHz band, “but the Schedule S submitted with the application states that NSS-806 will operate in the 6490-6650 MHz band,” it said. The bureau also dismissed NBC Telemundo’s application for a new fixed earth station authorization. NBC Telemundo listed the equivalent isotropically radiated power density on Schedule B as 80.13 dBW/4kHz, it said in another letter (http://bit.ly/1e9XHUA). “Based on other information provided by NBC Telemundo elsewhere in its application, we calculate that EIRP density should be 1.0 dBW/4kHz."