CTIA Raises Satellite Spectrum Concerns at FCC
CTIA representatives met this week with an aide to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and others at the FCC to raise concerns about satellite spectrum-sharing proposals before the agency (see 2508280006|). “CTIA highlighted the rapid growth in demand for full-power licensed terrestrial spectrum and reiterated the need for the Commission to continue its vital work of both expanding and protecting terrestrial wireless operations,” said a filing posted Thursday in docket 25-157.
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The FCC should decline to make any changes to its satellite equivalent power flux density limits applicable to the C band, the group said. “The current limits were recently re-evaluated internationally” as part of the World Radiocommunication Conference in 2019, “and changes could present unnecessary interference risks into currently deployed terrestrial networks and future terrestrial deployments.”