Alaska Governor Urges Keeping NGSO Domestic Coverage Requirement
The domestic coverage requirement for non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite networks guarantees Alaska -- particularly rural Alaska -- is "not forgotten," Gov. Bill Walker (I) said in an FCC docket 16-408 filing last week. Without the requirement, the incentive for NGSOs…
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to provide broadband service to all of Alaska along with the Lower 48 "disappears," Walker said, urging the agency to keep the requirement. NGSO operators are divided on the FCC's proposed elimination of the requirement (see 1801030039).