GPS Innovation Alliance Seeks Reconsideration of Galileo Waiver
The GPS Innovation Alliance sought reconsideration and clarification of a November order that granted in part and denied in part European Commission-sought waivers for receivers for Galileo's E1 and E5 signals, which transmit in the same radionavigation satellite service bands…
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as GPS' L1, L2 and L5 signals (see 1811140008). “This action will remove uncertainty regarding operation of those devices, enhance their utility, and promote the global harmonization” of U.S. Global Navigation Satellite System operations, the alliance petitioned Monday night in docket 17-16. "Instead of denying the EC request that receive-only stations be permitted to receive signals in the 1240-1300 MHz band, the Commission should defer action on that issue until it assesses whether GNSS devices can co-exist with potential operations in the adjacent 1300-1350 MHz band when these possible uses are better defined. The Commission should also clarify that the Commission’s decisions (or lack thereof) in intergovernmental waiver proceedings only address the issue of whether the users of devices which receive foreign signals can invoke the benefit and protection of U.S. law.”