Gogo urged the FCC to adopt a five-year...
Gogo urged the FCC to adopt a five-year substantial service deadline for Qualcomm’s proposed 14 GHz air-to-ground (ATG) mobile broadband service. Developing new equipment, obtaining initial Federal Aviation Administration certification for the airborne components and constructing the base stations needed…
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to cover U.S. airspace “could easily be achieved in less than five years,” it said in an ex parte filing in docket 13-114 (http://bit.ly/1jrEtXD). To the extent the FCC is concerned that a new entrant might require additional time to complete an ATG network, the FCC should establish an alternative substantial service formulation, Gogo said. Within four years, the licensee should be required to demonstrate that it has met an interim construction benchmark, Gogo said. The licensee should be required to make its final substantial service showing within seven years, Gogo said. This benchmark will help ensure “that licensees work diligently to construct their networks, and that the spectrum is not warehoused,” it said.