NGSO Interference Can Be Productive, ITIF Tells FCC
As the FCC considers using a degraded throughput threshold for spectrum sharing among non-geostationary orbit satellite constellations, the result should be maximum use of the spectrum even through "productive interference" where the cost of mitigation overprotects some users, ITIF said…
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Monday in docket 21-456. It also warned of the degraded throughput disincentivizing investments in better receivers, creating a "hecklers' veto," and urged the agency to adopt standardized antenna patterns that will receive FCC protection. That would prevent poorly performing receivers being a basis for claiming high degraded throughput, it said. And it urged an aggregate threshold that's parceled out among systems in later processing rounds that actually deploy.