5G Transmitters Are FSS Earth Station Interference Risk, O3b Says
Rules allowing 5G wireless operations in the 28 GHz band need to safeguard fixed satellite services from terrestrial emissions, since relatively small numbers of outdoor 5G transmitters "could severely impact" FSS satellite on-orbit receivers, O3b said in an ex parte…
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filing posted Wednesday in docket 14-177. It recapped a meeting between FCC staff, including International Bureau Satellite Division Chief Jose Albuquerque, and O3b representatives including Vice President-Regulatory Affairs Suzanne Malloy. The filing said O3b talked about its previously submitted technical analysis of possible 5G/satellite operating requirements, and repeated its request the FCC delimit aggregate terrestrial interference into FSS satellite receivers in a Further NPRM before finalizing 28 GHz rules.