The Satellite Industries Association is urging the FCC to conside...
The Satellite Industries Association is urging the FCC to consider requiring that more than one 700 MHz D-block device receive satellite signals. “Satellites are uniquely able to provide cost-effective service in many rural and remote areas, and in the…
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event of terrestrial catastrophes, all first responders should have access to the kind of failsafe network that satellite systems are uniquely able to provide,” SIA told Erika Olsen, aide to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Friday. Terrestrial networks are vulnerable to storms less devastating that Hurricane Katrina, SIA President Patricia Cooper wrote in an ex parte. “Satellites at such times can and do provide critical communications links,” she said. The FCC had required the 700 MHz D-block winner to offer at least one satellite-enabled handset as part of the public-private partnership to build a nationwide interoperable broadband network for public safety. That block’s failure to sell the first time around has the FCC reviewing its 700 MHz D-block rules, with adoption of new rules expected at the commission’s Sept. 25 meeting.