NCTA, Which Expressed Concerns on Globalstar TLPS, Lobbies With Charter
NCTA, which has had concerns about a Globalstar broadband plan, discussed those issues with an aide to FCC Commissioner Mike O'Rielly, joined by an executive at Charter Communications. A two-sentence ex parte filing posted Tuesday in docket 13-213 said the…
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Communications Daily is required reading for senior executives at top telecom corporations, law firms, lobbying organizations, associations and government agencies (including the FCC). Join them today!
cable representatives and Justin Lilley of TeleMedia Policy Corp. last week discussed with the aide what the document said was described in a filing last month in the docket. In that earlier filing, NCTA with Cox Enterprises met with the aide to say "open questions about interference caused by Globalstar warranted additional investigation." The cable representatives said then (see 1606070044) that issuing special temporary authority for Globalstar's technology and joint testing that CableLabs had proposed would be better than a pending draft order. O'Rielly and Commissioner Mignon Clyburn didn't initially vote on the order about the company's terrestrial low-power system (see 1606240056). Globalstar didn't comment Wednesday.