SES/O3b Backs Ending NGSO Domestic Coverage Requirement
SES/O3b is backing the push for the FCC to dump the domestic coverage requirement for non-geostationary orbit satellites (see 1711150029). A docket 16-408 reply posted Monday said with several NGSO systems planning to offer ubiquitous domestic coverage, the FCC has…
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no compelling policy reason to keep the requirement and constrain system designs for future applicants. O3b said in a filing that in meetings with aides to Chairman Ajit Pai, the four other commissioners and the International Bureau, it argued proposed NGSO processing round application amendments and the petitions for reconsideration of the NGSO report and order would inject "significant uncertainty" into the Ka-/Ku-band and V-band processing rounds. It said FCC precedent handles all the relevant issues brought up by the applications, such as specifying changes that can be made to a processing round application without disqualifying it from consideration as part of the round.