SpaceX Counters Viasat on Opposition to SCS Agreement With T-Mobile
SpaceX on Tuesday challenged Viasat’s standing to seek consideration of an order authorizing SpaceX and T-Mobile to provide supplemental coverage from space (SCS) service (see 2412270017). “After decades of warehousing prime mid-band spectrum at the expense of consumers and first…
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responders, Viasat and its front group," the Mobile Satellite Services Association, "seek to prevent an American satellite operator from delivering life-saving” coverage, said a filing in docket 23-135. Because Viasat didn’t participate in the underlying licensing docket, “it lacks standing to bring its petition for reconsideration,” SpaceX said: “Even if it had timely raised these claims, the Commission still must reject them because they fundamentally misread the Commission’s SCS licensing framework and its overarching goal to establish and maintain American leadership in the market for direct-to-cellular services both here and abroad.”