CBA Pitches FCC on Being C-Band Facilitator
The C-Band Alliance says it would be the best choice as facilitator for a C-band transition, orchestrating and coordinating both orbital and terrestrial spectrum clearing, in a docket 18-122 ex parte posting Monday on a meeting involving CBA CEO Bill…
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Tolpegin and SES and Intelsat executives with FCC officials including Office of Economics and Analytics Acting Chief Giulia McHenry and Wireless Chief Don Stockdale. In a separate ex parte letter, NPR recapped a meeting with agency officials over what a transition needs to accomplish. That includes adequate incentives for satellite operators to maintain service and capacity and full coverage of C-band satellite customers' and earth station operators' costs due to spectrum reallocation, including increased operating costs. It said the FCC also must allow "robust operations" in the remaining fixed satellite service part of the band.