Globalstar Terrestrial Service Appears to Cause Harm, Kerrisdale Capital Says

Kerrisdale Capital Management again said results of Jarvinian's testing for Globalstar’s proposed terrestrial low-power service (TLPS) are inadequate and misleading. Testing by Allion shows that TLPS “could reduce the capacity of nearby unlicensed networks by as much as 60 or 70 percent,” Kerrisdale said in an ex parte filing posted Friday in docket 13-213 (http://bit.ly/1vTP4Vj). Engineering simulations also call into question the actual range of TLPS, it said. Independent simulations demonstrate that TLPS will never be able to match the throughput and capacity of a competently designed network “utilizing the many available 5 GHz band channels available today for free,” it said. Kerrisdale urged the FCC to consider the tests conducted by Allion as it assesses Globalstar’s request.