Telesat Canada, OneWeb Continue Clash With ViaSat Over Band Segmentation
Telesat Canada and OneWeb are locking horns with ViaSat over use of band segmentation to resolve inline events between non-geostationary orbit fixed satellite service systems. In an FCC docket 16-408 filing Thursday, the companies disagreed with ViaSat arguments in favor…
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of band segmentation. They said the fact band-splitting rule applies when there's no prior coordination agreement and requires real-time resolution of interference runs headlong into the unworkability of a real-time exchange of data. They said even if it weren't, that information would be commercially and customer sensitive. ViaSat emailed us Friday that the FCC "has developed a level playing field" for coordination between non-geostationary orbit systems, and "band splitting is the fall back mechanism to ensure good faith coordination." It said the framework "was adopted with a full understanding of Telesat and OneWeb’s desire for an ITU priority-based regime in which the satellite operators would control spectrum access. The Commission’s approach, based on long-standing policy, strikes the right balance and nothing in the current Telesat/OneWeb filing changes that. The Commission should affirm its previous decision and let the operators move on to system coordination and implementation." OneWeb petitioned the FCC to revisit the band-splitting portion of NGSO rules adopted last year (see 1801180060).