The satellite industry was able to "contain the persistent encroachments" on spectrum allocated to satellite as well as get more flexibility and new allocations at the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference, said the Global Satellite Coalition, which includes the Satellite Industry Association. GSC said the WRC-19 action on earth stations in motion (ESIM) in the Ka band "unmistakably answers the need for more flexibility in the use of existing spectrum allocations to address increased demand for connectivity." The protection of C-band downlinks in Asia and Africa ensures protection of services there, it said. Setting up a regulatory framework for non-geostationary satellites to operate in the Q and V bands, the allocation of 1 GHz of spectrum for fixed satellite service in the 51.4-52.4 GHz band for feeder links, and allocation of spectrum for high altitude platform stations and international mobile telecom also were key, the consortium said. It said agenda items for 2023 including ESIM communicating with geostationary satellite networks in Ku band and NGSO satellite systems in Ka band, and technical considerations for space-to-space links were good news. It said SIA member AT&T didn't support all GSC's views. WRC-19 wrapped up Friday (see 1911220014).
The 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference accomplishments include providing additional bands for international mobile telecom and high-altitude platform systems, expanded coverage by global maritime distress and safety systems (GMDSS), and teeing up issues to be looked at in 2023 including high-altitude international mobile telecom (IMT) base stations (HIBS). That's according to WRC-19 and industry officials Friday as WRC-19 in Egypt ended.
The Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security finalized some interagency reviews of Huawei license applications and will begin issuing approvals and denials on a “rolling basis,” said Matt Borman, Commerce deputy assistant secretary-export administration. Secretary Wilbur Ross said the department will "send out the 20-day intent-to-deny letters and some approvals” for U.S. companies to export some things to the Chinese telecom gearmaker. Ross said Commerce got about 290 “requests for specific licenses.” BIS plans to approve at least “several” licenses while denying others, a Commerce spokesperson told us after Borman spoke at the agency's Materials and Equipment Technical Advisory Committee meeting Wednesday. The Semiconductor Industry Association welcomes approvals for licenses that aren't national security threats. “Sales of these non-sensitive commercial products help ensure the competitiveness of the U.S. semiconductor industry, which is essential to national security,” said SIA President John Neuffer.
The Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security finalized some interagency reviews of Huawei license applications and will begin issuing approvals and denials on a “rolling basis,” said Matt Borman, Commerce deputy assistant secretary-export administration. Secretary Wilbur Ross said the department will "send out the 20-day intent-to-deny letters and some approvals” for U.S. companies to export some things to the Chinese telecom gearmaker. Ross said Commerce got about 290 “requests for specific licenses.” BIS plans to approve at least “several” licenses while denying others, a Commerce spokesperson told us after Borman spoke at the agency's Materials and Equipment Technical Advisory Committee meeting Wednesday. The Semiconductor Industry Association welcomes approvals for licenses that aren't national security threats. “Sales of these non-sensitive commercial products help ensure the competitiveness of the U.S. semiconductor industry, which is essential to national security,” said SIA President John Neuffer.
The Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security finalized some interagency reviews of Huawei license applications and will begin issuing approvals and denials on a “rolling basis,” said Matt Borman, Commerce deputy assistant secretary-export administration. Secretary Wilbur Ross said the department will "send out the 20-day intent-to-deny letters and some approvals” for U.S. companies to export some things to the Chinese telecom gearmaker. Ross said Commerce got about 290 “requests for specific licenses.” BIS plans to approve at least “several” licenses while denying others, a Commerce spokesperson told us after Borman spoke at the agency's Materials and Equipment Technical Advisory Committee meeting Wednesday. The Semiconductor Industry Association welcomes approvals for licenses that aren't national security threats. “Sales of these non-sensitive commercial products help ensure the competitiveness of the U.S. semiconductor industry, which is essential to national security,” said SIA President John Neuffer.
The Commerce Department Bureau of Industry and Security finalized some interagency reviews of Huawei license applications and will begin issuing approvals and denials on a “rolling basis,” according to Matt Borman, Commerce deputy assistant secretary for export administration. The announcement was first made by Secretary Wilbur Ross, who told Fox Business on Nov. 19 that Commerce has started “to send out the 20-day intent-to-deny letters and some approvals.” Ross also said Commerce has received about 290 “requests for specific licenses.”
OneWeb Satellites -- the OneWeb/Airbus satellite manufacturing joint venture (see 1706270064) -- joined the Satellite Industry Association, SIA said Tuesday.
Global semiconductor sales increased 1.7 percent sequentially in July from June to $33.4 billion, but declined 15.5 percent from July 2018, said the Semiconductor Industry Association Tuesday. July sales increased 3.1 percent from June in Asia Pacific, and were up 2.5 percent in the Americas, 1.1 percent in China and 0.7 percent in Japan but down 0.5 percent in Europe, said SIA. Year-over-year sales declined “across all regional markets,” with China and the Americas having the largest decreases, it said.
The Wireless ISP Association slammed NAB and Satellite Industry Association filings raising questions on whether the C band can be safely shared with fixed point-to-multipoint (P2MP) operations. Both referred to an ITU report, WISPA filed, posted Thursday in docket 18-122. “Citing the ITU report is misleading because NAB, and SIA before it, mention only the fact that interference occurred, and do not explain that the circumstances in Bangladesh and Brazil were entirely different from coordinated sharing that would take place in the United States under the proposal advanced by the Broadband Access Coalition and others in this proceeding,” WISPA said. Both “mislead the Commission by disingenuously comparing carefully coordinated P2MP operations in C-band spectrum to network deployments about which next to nothing is known, except that they were likely uncoordinated with earth stations,” WISPA said. "NAB does not have confidence that the unproven P2MP coordination proposal will fully protect earth stations, and adding the P2MP proposal to an already complex C-Band reallocation would be reckless," a NAB spokesperson emailed Thursday: "There is no indication that the operations in Bangladesh and Brazil (as well as other countries) were not authorized operations -- yet they still caused interference.” SIA didn't comment.
Amazon's Kuiper Systems subsidiary is Satellite Industry Association's latest executive member, SIA announced Monday. Kuiper has a non-geostationary orbit constellation application pending at the FCC (see 1907310005).