Satellite Tiering Proposals Would Box Out People From UMFUS, FWCC Says
Satellite broadband operators' tiered approach to earth station siting "would lock out too many people" from upper microwave flexible use systems (UMFUS) because of earth station interference, said the Fixed Wireless Communications Coalition (FWCC). In a docket 14-177 filing posted…
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Wednesday, FWCC said the FCC's spectrum frontiers earth station siting rule expressly allows interference to terrestrial users, but it didn't object because the alternative effectively would have ruled out satellite operations completely. But the FCC shouldn't allow satellite interests to expand that interference beyond either the spectrum frontier rule or the alternate tiered approach proposed by FWCC, the group said. They said satellite interest arguments (see 1706120006 and 1705050056) give no details on how their tiering proposal would affect UMFUS users broadly or how many license areas would fall into their proposed tiers. The satellite interests didn't comment.