TerreStar Talks WMTS Waiver Reconsideration With FCC's Pai
The FCC reconsidering denial of TerreStar's waiver (see 1711130052) would speed up making more spectrum available for wireless medical telemetry service, company officials told Chairman Ajit Pai, General Counsel Tom Johnson and Commissioner Brendan Carr, said a docket 16-290 posting…
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Tuesday. Waiver would give channel 37 WMTS users another capacity option while alleviating congestion in the 1.4 GHz WMTS spectrum band, it said. It would create an interference-free environment for WMTS spectrum that doesn't have the adjacent and co-channel interference threats associated with channel 37 and allow more use of the 1300-1390 MHz spectrum. The company seeks waiver of a requirement it show substantial service for all its paired 1392-1395 and 1432-1435 MHz and unpaired 1390-1392 MHz band licenses by April 23; it wants to use the spectrum instead for wireless medical telemetry.