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CTIA Counters Hughes Arguments on Earth-Station Siting Rules

CTIA countered recent arguments by Hughes Network on earth station siting rules (see 2003240056). “Many of the requests … are inconsistent with the Commission’s rules, which allow for siting of new earth stations in bands shared with Upper Microwave Flexible…

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Use Service licensees under very limited circumstances,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 17-172. The FCC International Bureau “must ensure that it does not limit prior coordination in any way,” CTIA said: “Earth station applicants will not have a way to determine where an UMFUS licensee may have constructed facilities within its license area, and therefore cannot limit prior coordination notices to only those licensees who have constructed and operational facilities within the proposed earth station’s power flux density contour.”