WCA Sees Interference Threat From Globalstar Wi-Fi Proposal for 2.4 GHz Band
The FCC should refrain from approving Globalstar’s use of the 2.4 GHz band to deploy a private Wi-Fi channel until hard questions are answered about how the satellite operator will protect broadband radio service and educational broadband service deployments in…
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the spectrum from interference, said the Wireless Communications Association in a letter posted Monday in docket 13-213. WCA noted it has long raised objections. Meanwhile, Globalstar representatives met with FCC officials, including Wireless Bureau Chief Roger Sherman, to discuss recent tests of its terrestrial low-power service (TLPS) in a school. Aggregate throughput for Wi-Fi users there increased by more than 90 percent, Globalstar said. “The benefits of TLPS will be particularly important in America’s schools and libraries, high-density environments with substantial wireless broadband usage that will only increase over time,” Globalstar said in the same docket.