Big Changes to NGSO Sharing Draft Order Considered Unlikely

Wireless Future Project director Michael Calabrese is quoted in a Communications Daily article about how unlikely it is that the Federal Communications Commission will make big changes to the non-geostationary orbit spectrum sharing order during their April meeting, with Calabrese applauding the intensive spectrum sharing regime the order sets up.

Michael Calabrese, New America's Wireless Future Project director, applauded the intensive satellite spectrum sharing regime the order sets up. With the required good-faith coordination among incumbent and new entrant NGSOs, the use of the degraded throughput metric for measuring interference and the promised enforcement of good-faith coordination, "this is a good first step in addressing our concern that by giving first-round entrants priority, the Commission is giving incumbent operators an incentive to refuse to coordinate," he emailed. “Going forward, we will push the FCC to adopt a robust version of the degraded throughput metric, as well as specific information sharing requirements to encourage more market entry, efficient sharing and competition.”