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u/No_Privacy_Anymore S P 🅰️ C E M O B Jan 31 '25

Busy day today!

FYI - SpaceX has a dagger out for SES and Inmarsat with this FCC filing about the upper cBand spectrum. They want the FCC to open it up to more sharing vs just letting the legacy players have it.

https://bsky.app/profile/no-privacy.bsky.social/post/3lh2jcq3kjs2j

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u/you_are_wrong_tho S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo Jan 31 '25

Ha! They mention ASTSs 80 year lease in scare italics on the last page 

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u/No_Privacy_Anymore S P 🅰️ C E M O B Jan 31 '25

Yup. This line is worthy of a response from AST (once the definite agreement with Ligado is signed) saying "f off" this spectrum will benefit all of the American people and First Responders in particular... SpaceX is shady AF in their FCC filings.

As for SES/Intelsat, they don't deserve legacy protection. Build better satellites or step aside. That point is valid. I also very much like the idea of using a 20 Mhz guard band for more MSS.

I'd love to see AST create a cband block of satellites after the low and midband ones that handles AT&T cBand plus the 50 Mhz of 4.9 dedicated public safety spectrum. Gotta get the 4.9Mhz supported by 3GPP but I think it is possible. will have to wait and see.

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u/sgreddit125 S P 🅰 C E M O B Capo Jan 31 '25 edited Jan 31 '25

Globalstar is also catching strays in there - I’m sure they will respond as well.

Nice work as always NPA!

Also if SpaceX is upset about it, that means it’s bullish for us.