Globalstar Lobbying FCC on TLPS Revision on Circulation
Globalstar continues to lobby the FCC on its revised terrestrial low-power service broadband plans on circulation on the eighth floor (see here). In an ex parte posted filing Monday in docket 13-213, Globalstar recapped calls with International Bureau officials and…
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with Chairman Tom Wheeler aide Edward Smith about the proposal and about the rules the company suggested for the revised proposal. In a separate filing Friday in the docket, it responded to criticisms raised last week by Hearing Industries Association (HIA) (see 1612150041), one of the few remaining critics of its TLPS plans after numerous others said they have no objection to the company's revised plans. In its HIA response, Globalstar said the out-of-band emission (OOBE) limits it proposed would protect hearing aids that use Bluetooth. It said Bluetooth protocols used by hearing aids are robust enough to operate in extreme congestion, and any OOBE from Globalstar operations would fall below industrial, scientific and medical band noise/interference floor. It said the 3.5 MHz between Bluetooth hearing aid operations and Globalstar operations would be as "a protective effective guard band" between the two. In a statement Monday, HIA said Globalstar’s response "misconstrues many key facts in this discussion, including the results from its 2015 demonstration, which at this time does even not appear relevant to the current issue before the FCC."