Verizon Airfone met with International Bureau and Wireless Bureau...
Verizon Airfone met with International Bureau and Wireless Bureau staff to discuss progress on cross-border agreements with Canada and Mexico when the U.S. begins to permit broadband on commercial flights following the May air-to-ground auction. Verizon is the ATG…
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incumbent and will continue to offer services using a 1 MHz license. The company also plans to bid aggressively for the spectrum licenses being offered at auction. “As Airfone noted in previous meetings with the staff, timely negotiations of new cross-border agreements with Canada and Mexico is extremely important to the provision of broadband air-ground services,” the company said. “In addition, it is critical to enable Airfone to meet its obligation under the new rules adopted by the Commission, i.e., to reconfigure its current narrowband system -- such that it uses just 1 MHz of spectrum -- within 24 months of the grant of new licenses.”