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The proposed air-to-ground (ATG) mobile broadband service in...

The proposed air-to-ground (ATG) mobile broadband service in the 14 GHz band will give in-flight passengers the same level of broadband connectivity they have on the ground, Qualcomm said. Allowing some base stations to operate with 6 dB more power…

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to compensate for adverse atmospheric conditions won’t cause interference to fixed satellite services operations “because the aggregate interference will at no time exceed the maximum allowable level of -48.7 dBW/Hz,” it said in a letter posted Wednesday to docket 13-114 (http://bit.ly/1gBpSgW). The Satellite Industry Association “misreads the proposed rules,” Qualcomm said. Those rules “do not contemplate having multiple licenses operate on the same swath of spectrum,” it said in response to SIA’s recent ex parte filing (CD May 23 p16). If harmful interference to geosynchronous FSS operations occurs, “there will be a single secondary licensee for the primary satellite operator to contact for remediation purposes,” said the company.