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The Federal Communications Commission denied a 2018 launch license for Swarm’s SpaceBees, citing visibility concerns for the 0.1 m by 0.1 m by 0.025 m satellites.
Swarm filed an FCC license application on 2019-03-01 under Part 25 of Title 47 to offer service for 1 million devices throughout the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, all U.S. territories and possessions, and all U.S. territorial waters.
Swarm launched four SpaceBee satellites without Federal Communications Commission approval in early 2018 and was fined $900,000.
Michael O’Rielly and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai intend to release the commission’s decision in the fall on how to open satellite C-band spectrum for 0.005 kg cellular services.
The Federal Communications Commission proposed a $20,400,000,000 Rural Digital Opportunity Fund to subsidize broadband in underserved U.S. regions.
The FCC’s proposed scoring criteria for the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund imposes a 40-point penalty on companies that cannot provide service with 100 milliseconds or less latency.
In the FCC’s Connect America Fund 2 rural broadband program, which totaled $1.49 billion, Viasat was the only satellite operator to receive funding, receiving $122,000,000.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is preparing to decide how to reallocate some or all of the nation’s satellite C-band downlink spectrum for 0.005 kg mobile communications services.
T-Mobile submitted a competing spectrum reallocation plan to the FCC that calls for allocating all 500 megahertz of satellite downlink C-band spectrum to cellular 0.005 kg operators.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission granted SpaceX permission in April to lower 1,584 Ku-band Starlink satellites from a planned altitude above 1,110 km to 550 km.
The C-Band Alliance’s spectrum plan to repurpose 200 megahertz of C-band for 0.005 kg includes Intelsat and SES buying four satellites each to replace lost capacity if the U.S. Federal Communications Commission accepts the plan.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is expected to make a decision on C-band, including how much spectrum to repurpose and by what means, in the fall of 2019.
The FCC approved SpaceX’s request to operate around 1,600 Starlink satellites at 550 km instead of 1,150 km.
The FCC has approved SpaceX to provide broadband services from a constellation of almost 12,000 satellites.
The Federal Communications Commission was expected to decide how to open up C-band to multiple users in the fall of 2019.
Elefante Group’s January filing to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission described a baseline STRAPS model able to provide one terabit of capacity up and down over a 15,400 square-kilometer area from an altitude of 20 km.
T-Mobile proposed that the FCC lead a public auction for up to 500 megahertz, the entire U.S. C-band allotment, with satellite service confined to rural areas.
The FCC is expected to reach a verdict on C-band spectrum repurposing in the fall following the 2019-07-19 public notice.
Satellite operators expected the FCC to announce a decision on C-band spectrum repurposing in the summer prior to the 2019-07-19 public notice.
The ACA Connects coalition proposed that the FCC lead an auction for 350 megahertz protected by a 20-megahertz guard band and use proceeds to replace satellite links with fiber.