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FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks supports expanding eligibility for the low-latency performance tier and expects commission staff to evaluate applications on their merits.
The FCC requires cellular network operators that bid for C-band spectrum in the 2019-12-08 auction to reimburse satellite operators for the cost of replacement satellites and other infrastructure.
The FCC’s accelerated clearing program requires SES, Intelsat, Eutelsat, Telesat, and Embratel Star One to clear the first 120 megahertz of C-band by 2021-12-05.
A bipartisan group of senators asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai in a 2020-06-04 letter to provide a detailed account of how the agency arrived at the decision to approve Ligado’s use of a portion of the L-band spectrum to build a 0.005 kg wireless network.
The Federal Communications Commission’s 2020-04-20 ruling approved Ligado’s use of a portion of the L-band spectrum to build a 0.005 kg wireless network.
The 2020-06-04 letter was signed by eight senators, most of whom are members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that oversees the FCC.
OneWeb submitted plans with the Federal Communications Commission on 2020-05-27 to increase its constellation by 48,000 satellites.
The Pentagon and other government agencies opposed the FCC’s 2020-04-20 ruling on Ligado’s use of L-band spectrum on the grounds that the network will interfere with the Global Positioning System.
SES proposed a low Earth orbit constellation to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on 2020-05-26 to seek U.S. market access for that system.
SES’s FCC filing was submitted in response to an FCC call for information from satellite operators aiming to provide U.S. communications services with non-geosynchronous constellations in certain Ku- and Ka-band frequencies.
SES indicated that FCC approvals the company received in 2018 enable it to triple the size of the O3b mPower fleet.
Viasat is willing to build a consumer broadband constellation of 288 satellites in low Earth orbit if it can obtain a share of a $20,400,000,000 universal broadband fund the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is preparing to roll out later in 2020.
Viasat was the only satellite operator awarded subsidies from the Connect America Fund Phase 2, receiving $122,000,000 from the $1,490,000,000 program the FCC planned to spend from 2018 to 2028.
The FCC released rules on 2020-05-19 covering how the first $16,000,000,000 of the $20,400,000,000 Rural Digital Opportunities Fund will be spent.
Viasat gained FCC approval last month for a medium-Earth-orbit constellation of 20 satellites that the company had not committed to build but had discussed as a possible augmentation to its GEO fleet.
Viasat is open to building a low Earth orbit constellation of nearly 300 satellites if it can qualify for some of the $20,400,000,000 in broadband subsidies from the FCC’s Rural Digital Opportunities Fund.
If at least three of the FCC’s five commissioners vote in favor of the proposed rules, bidding for the program’s first $16,000,000,000 would take place on 2020-10-29.
Viasat reported achieving 100 Mbps download speeds in select geographies but, like competitor Hughes Network Systems, did not demonstrate uploads exceeding 3 Mbps in FCC submissions.
Viasat’s proposed LEO constellation would operate at 1,300 km using Ka- and V-band frequencies recently authorized for the MEO system, according to a 2020-05-26 FCC filing.
Intelsat formally notified the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on 2020-05-26 that it will participate in the FCC’s $9,700,000,000 accelerated C-band spectrum clearing program.