Globalstar Asks FCC To OK Its Service To Ease Wi-Fi Congestion
The FCC should adopt proposed rules to add 22 MHz to U.S. wireless broadband spectrum inventory and ease the congestion that's diminishing the quality of Wi-Fi service at high-traffic 802.11 hot spots and other locations, Globalstar said in an FCC…
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filing posted Monday in docket 13-213. Globalstar also expressed support for the rules because they would let the company provide low-power terrestrial mobile broadband service in its own licensed and unlicensed spectrum, it said. Globalstar General Counsel Barbee Ponder and others met with officials including International Bureau Chief Mindel De La Torre and Office of Engineering and Technology Chief Julius Knapp. Others have been skeptical that the company's mobile broadband service is ready to be deployed because of concerns over interference (see 1504280038).