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AT&T and Verizon have a beef with T-Mobile’s Starlink satellite service
The satellite-to-phone industry is getting very catty.
Filings that urge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reject SpaceX’s request to waive out-of-band emission limits were submitted by AT&T and Verizon this week, joining similar opposition from satellite companies EchoStar and Omnispace. SpaceX is now seeking a “ninefold increase” to current power flux-density limits for out-of-band emissions to enact the Supplemental Coverage from Space (SCS) offer, which, according to AT&T, “would cause unacceptable harmful interference” to terrestrial mobile operations. Specifically, AT&T’s technical analysis shows that SpaceX’s proposal would cause an 18 percent average reduction in network downlink throughput in an operational and representative AT&T PCS C Block market deployment.
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