O3b, SES Tell FCC Staff What OneWeb Seeks Would Be Spectrum Warehousing
SES Americom and O3b said FCC staff shouldn't OK OneWeb-proposed changes to its broadband satellite system because they are “speculative and would undermine” the agency’s application processing round framework. Anti-warehousing provisions bar two unbuilt systems in the same band, said…
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the companies. “OneWeb has provided no public interest rationale for the significant expansion of the constellations,” an SES lawyer recounted telling International Bureau officials, including Satellite Division Chief Jose Albuquerque, posted Tuesday in docket 14-177. The two said the plans conflict with “OneWeb indicating that fewer satellites will be required for the first-generation rollout of its Ku/Ka-band system, highlighting the absence of any urgency for the Commission to consider vastly increasing the number of satellites OneWeb is authorized to deploy." The agency may OK such plans even amid opposition (see 1809130002). OneWeb representatives didn't comment.