Google, OTI, PK Press for Globalstar TLPS Conditions
Google wants Globalstar to make public the protocols its network operating system uses to authorize spectrum uses by terrestrial low-power service broadband devices in Wi-Fi channel 14 and demonstrate the NOS can exchange information needed for spectrum use in channel…
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14 with non-TLPS devices without relying on nonpublic protocols or standards, it said in an FCC ex parte filing posted Friday in docket 13-213. It recapped a conversation between Google Communications Law Director Austin Schlick and FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's aide, Edward Smith, about Globalstar's TLPS plans. Google said any FCC approval of Globalstar's testing of TLPS in currently unlicensed spectrum should require such testing look at options for general public use of channel 14. In a separate ex parte filing Friday, Open Technology Institute and Public Knowledge said again said they could support TLPS use of channel 14, but only if the FCC can guarantee a net benefit to the public, in a meeting with Wireless Bureau Chief Jon Wilkins. The agency should allow reciprocal public use of channel 14 in locations where TLPS isn't deployed and where Globalstar says there's slim risk channel 14 transmissions will interfere with its mobile satellite device customers, said Michael Calabrese, director-Wireless Future Project, OTI, according to the filing. "Globalstar is highly unlikely to deploy immediately on a nationwide basis," OTI and PK said. "In return for the auction-free windfall that Globalstar seeks, unlicensed operations should be able to use Channel 14 on an opportunistic basis, as the Commission has adopted for the 600 MHz band post-incentive auction." Globalstar didn't comment.