The Satellite Industry Association and EchoStar urged the...
The Satellite Industry Association and EchoStar urged the FCC to deny a petition from Utilities Telecom Council and Winchester Cator for a review of the commission’s decision denying secondary use of the 14.0-14.5 GHz band. Enforcing upper limits on the…
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amount of critical infrastructure industry (CII) receivers authorized to operate on a secondary basis “would not address how and when particular transmitters could be located and shut down in the event of harmful interference,” SIA said in comments in docket RM-11429 (http://bit.ly/121loUk). The commission rightly concluded that the public interest isn’t served “by allowing CII users on a secondary basis in frequencies where the risk of interference to FSS [fixed satellite service] earth stations is significant,” SIA said. The UTC-Winchester centralized coordination role “does not adequately address all cases of potential interference since it fails to take into account the particular sensitivities of individual satellites,” EchoStar said (http://bit.ly/1azl6Mz). The petitioner hasn’t included a workable plan to pinpoint specific interferers, it said.