FCC Should File All Results From TLPS Demo, Gerst Capital Says

The FCC should file the results to proceedings on the terrestrial low-power service demonstrations held at the agency’s Technology Experience Center in March, said Gerst Capital in a letter posted Wednesday in docket 13-213. Those TLPS measurement results should include resolution bandwidth, video bandwidth, center frequency and frequency span, Gerst said. The measurements are required to “validate Globalstar’s claim that all devices will only require ‘firmware modifications’ to support TLPS,” the letter said. It said the measurements could impair channel 14/TLPS, which would bring the claim into question. If the problem does exist at the access point, it will exist for almost any LTE-enabled smartphone, too, Gerst said. Globalstar has said Gerst is a short-seller that profits from creating doubt, and defended its tests (see 1503230030).