NGSO Interference Protections Need FNPRM: Satcom Operators
As the FCC considers how to define protection criteria for non-geostationary orbit systems and the level of protection for earlier-round systems, the agency should at minimum preserve the processing round regime and balance targeted protections for operating systems with opportunities…
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for new entrants, satellite operators said Wednesday in docket 21-456. Recapping a meeting with an aide to Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, they said since there's disagreement about how to protect earlier-round systems from later entrants, they urged issuing a Further Notice as a route to "drive toward a consensus view." Meeting with the FCC were SpaceX OneWeb, Kepler and SES/O3b. Separately SpaceX said any Further NPRM should seek comment on ways to encourage spectral efficiency among NGSO systems in a single processing round. It also suggested that, in the commission's pending NGSO spectrum sharing NPRM, the FCC should require that later-round NGSO systems use information acquired through coordination when demonstrating compliance with an interference protection regime. If earlier-round systems don't provide that information, only then should later-round operators resort to information found in public applications, it said.