Gogo Lobbies Wireless Bureau for Action on Qualcomm
Gogo continued to urge the FCC to take action on the air-to-ground mobile broadband service proposed by Qualcomm. Gogo repeated its preference for dividing the proposed 500 MHz band into four nationwide 125 MHz licenses, it said in an ex…
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parte filing in docket 13-114. With a 125 MHz license, each ground station could support forward link capacity of about 400 Mbps, Gogo said. The number of ground stations in a network can be increased “through cell splitting without additional interference to satellites operating in the band,” it said. Auctioning four nationwide licenses wouldn’t increase the potential for harmful interference to primary services in the band, it said. Licensees wouldn’t be operating co-frequency with one another “and aggregate interference would be limited on a per-Hertz basis,” it said. The filing pertained to a meeting with the Wireless Bureau.