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Satellite Needs More Ku Spectrum, Not Sharing With Terrestrial Service: Intelsat

The upper 12 GHz band "is an integral part" of the global Ku-band satellite ecosystem, and repurposing it for terrestrial use would undermine critical services, Intelsat representatives told staffers of the FCC Space and Wireless Bureau and Office of Engineering…

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and Technology, said a docket 22-352 filing Wednesday. Intelsat urged removing restrictions on use of the Ku band by geostationary and non-geostationary orbit satellite services. It said thousands of satellites share 500 MHz of Ku uplink spectrum adjacent to the upper 12 GHz band and there's a need for more.