FCC Seen Facing Further Calls to Revisit Space Spectrum Rules

Communications Daily published an article covering a virtual event co-hosted by New America's Wireless Future and the International Center for Law & Economics. The event showcased how the leading satellite operators and experts are viewing pending FCC rulemakings and how much, in combination, they will boost LEO satellite capacity and performance.

As non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellite systems become more established, the FCC will face more pressure to revisit the rules, frameworks and spectrum-sharing approaches they operate under, space regulatory consultant Patricia Cooper said Thursday at a New America/International Center for Law & Economics webinar.

She and SpaceX and Amazon Kuiper representatives talked up the FCC's pending proceeding that contemplates changing the satellite spectrum-sharing regime between NGSO and geostationary orbit (GSO) fixed satellite service in certain bands. Commissioners adopted a sharing NPRM in April (see 2504280038) in response to a 2024 SpaceX petition urging changes to the GSO/NGSO sharing methodology (see 2408120018). But the proposal saw opposition during the webinar from Daniel Mah, vice president of legal and regulatory affairs at SES.