Spacex is lobon FCC to block satellite provider Globalstar iPhone from the beginning of a new constellation of 48 satellites for low -Earth orbit.
Globalstar’s C3 constellation promises to expand satellite energy features on the next iPhone, partly funded by a $ 1 billion investment by Apple. However, Spacex claims that FCC should reject the request because the C3 constellation will use the radio spectrum in the 1.6GHz and 2.4GHz bands.
These radio groups are facing a FCC control, which is thinking of opening the spectrum for all satellite players after a SPacex request. As a result, the company is calling the GlobalStar application as “premature”, and asking FCC to first open radio bands for the separation between mobile satellite services.
“Doing this would be the right and fastest way to determine the appropriate regulatory regime to govern operations in a group that has not been examined in nearly 20 years,” Spacex said in a letter to FCC.
Globalstar did not immediately respond to a comment request. But the letter is the latest Salvo in a regulatory battle between the company and the Spacex for the 1.6GHz and 2.4GHz gang control. Globalstar and Iridium were initially given exclusive access to the spectrum. But Spacex has been lobbying for shared access so that it can strengthen its Starlink Cellular System, which is currently relying on the T-Mobile spectrum in 1.9GHz bands for the US market.
Globalstar, on the other hand, claims that the opening of 1.6GHz and 2.4GHz gangs with other companies risks creating interference with its satellite systems, potentially degrading satellite connection to the iPhone. “There is no justification for the public interest in undermining the spectrum environment on which the GlobalStar was based,” they told FCC lawyers while meeting with the new President Brendan Carr.
But in Thursday’s letter to FCC, Spacex told the commission that the opening of radio gangs to share “would ensure more sustainable treatment, efficient division and strong competition between globalstar and other future-generation satellite systems-including spacex-long spectrum.”
In addition, Spacex noted that a previous FCC decision from a year ago said “Commission is currently not accepting applications for new MSS entries in 1.6/2.4 GHz gangs and 2 GHz.” Therefore, the Commission must deny the globalist’s request.
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However, it is possible that FCC means it was not accepting applications from new companies outside the Globalstar and Iridium. However, Spacex says its own petition to review the rules 1.6/2.4GHz appeared before applying the globalist for constellation C3.
“Acceptance of the GlobalStar application for its new system, with higher group power in the group would also radically change the spectrum environment in the 1.6/2.4 GHz gang to the detriment of future competitors, such as Spacex, whose applications preached the application of Globalstar and expressed an interest in the group’s effective division,” Spacex added.
This comes as FCC today relevant Space for renunciation “Total Banda Emissions ”in SH.BA, which allows SPacex to operate its Starlink cell system beyond the normal radio boundaries, subject to certain conditions.
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