The FCC committed a ‘critical oversight’ in failing to include sa...
The FCC committed a “critical oversight” in failing to include satellite networks as a viable alternative for providing transport to Internet backbone, the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) said in comments filed with the agency (See separate report in this…
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issue). The SIA was responding to the commission’s public notice on middle- and second-mile broadband availability, which is part of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan. SIA complains that the public notice fails to even mention satellite service when one of its main goals is to provide connectivity to rural areas, something satellite broadband is well-suited for. Satellite especially makes sense for middle-mile transport because high throughput Ka-band systems and other technological breakthroughs will bring down costs substantially over the next five years, SIA said.