ViaSat Lobbying FCC on Spectrum Frontiers

March 15, 2016 |Satellite

ViaSat expects an explosion in data capacity with launches of ViaSat-2 next year and then launches in 2019 and 2020 of ViaSat-3 Americas and ViaSat-3, CEO Mark Dankberg told FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, the company said in an ex parte filing Friday in docket 14-177. ViaSat 3 will deliver 100-plus Mbps of residential service, enabling 4K video streaming and fiber competition, plus up to 1 Gbps speeds for mobile and corporate enterprise applications, ViaSat said. The company also said it believes in shared use of the 28 GHz band with terrestrial operators. ViaSat said it recommended the Connect America Fund Phase II reverse auction be technology neutral by allowing competition by all technologies and service providers.