Terrestrial C-Band Use Requires Sizable Separation Zones, SES Says
Protecting satellite-delivered C-band services from interference from terrestrial mobile (IMT) base stations requires "significant separation distances," SES said in an FCC docket 17-183 technical analysis posted Monday. It said the SES analysis looked at earth stations near Virginia Beach and…
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found that to protect fixed satellite service operations, such IMT base stations operating in the same C-band frequencies would need exclusion zones of up to 65 kilometers from north to south and up to 75 kilometers from east to west. Since C-band receive earth stations are so ubiquitous, terrestrial mobile service deployment is essentially impossible in much of the country due to those separation distances, SES said.