5G Startup Starry Highlights Progress in FCC Meetings With Pai, Clyburn Aide
Starry CEO Chet Kanojia and investors in the startup briefed FCC Chairman Ajit Pai (see here) and an aide to Commissioner Mignon Clyburn on the company’s proprietary 5G fixed wireless technology and its deployment progress in Boston and other cities.…
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“Starry also reiterated its support for preserving commercial-to-commercial sharing in the lower 37 GHz band as proposed in the Spectrum Frontiers Report & Order and encouraged a timely issuance of the second Report & Order to unleash additional spectrum into the marketplace,” said a filing in docket 14-177. Kanojia said sharing in the lower 37 GHz band “could be more easily facilitated via a simple site-based registration system to coordinate users, eliminating the need to utilize a third-party spectrum access management system.” In response to Pai's query on inquired about satellite sharing issues and a proposal to increase power levels for proposed satellite operations, the tech upstart said it's concerned that doing so "for lower orbiting satellite constellations would have an adverse effect on terrestrial fixed operations." Kanojia was behind Aereo, which unsuccessfully tried to take on broadcasters before the Supreme Court ruled against it.