TLPS Compatible With Bluetooth, Unlicensed Services, Globalstar Says
Globalstar’s terrestrial low-power service (TLPS) won’t have detrimental effects on Bluetooth devices, Globalstar said in an ex parte notice posted at the FCC Monday in docket 13-213. Globalstar urged the commission to allow it to provide TLPS mobile broadband service…
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in its licensed spectrum at 2483.5 to 2495 MHz and adjacent unlicensed spectrum at 2473 to 2483.5 MHz. TLPS will “be a good neighbor” (see 1503240047) to Bluetooth operations within the unlicensed ISM band at 2400 to 2483.5 MHz, it said. TLPS demos confirmed there won’t be “discernible” effects for real-world consumers and end users, Globalstar said. FCC staff tested two Ruckus wireless access points enabled for TLPS operations in Globalstar’s licensed spectrum and adjacent unlicensed spectrum on March 24 and 25, the company said in an ex parte notice posted Monday. The Office of Engineering Technology wanted Globalstar to show that TLPS is compatible with other unlicensed services, emailed Globalstar Vice President-Regulatory Affairs Barbee Ponder. “We are quite confident that we answered their questions,” he said. Commission staff conducted emissions tests of RF radiation from TLPS access points for transmit power levels and spectral emissions masks information, Globalstar said. The access points were also used in the TLPS demonstration March 6, 9 and 10, it said. AT4 wireless, Jarvinian Ventures and Roberson and Associates attended the March 24 and 25 test, Globalstar said. No further TLPS demos are planned by the FCC, Ponder said. Globalstar has “come under attack from companies such as Gerst Capital and Kerrisdale Capital through endless filings of ex parte notices,” said two Globalstar investors in ex parte comments posted March 27. They urged the commission to take action in the proceeding. These filings “lack merit” and should be disregarded, they said in separate comments. The commission should decide using facts, not “the endless filings of those who would profit from an FCC rejection of the Globalstar petition,” said Mark Walton, who has a financial investment in Globalstar. Approving TLPS could “help relieve the spectrum crunch” and create more than 90,000 jobs, according to the American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research, said Jeremy Berry, a Globalstar investor. TLPS could increase U.S. Wi-Fi capacity by one third, he said.