Globalstar Talking Stripped-Back TLPS Plans With FCC

Globalstar is pitching its revised broadband terrestrial low-power service (TLPS) proposal in a series of meetings and calls with FCC officials. In an ex parte filing posted Wednesday in docket 13-213, the company recapped meetings between representatives including Vice President-Finance, Business Operations and Strategy Tim Taylor and General Counsel Barbee Ponder with legal aides for Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel, Ajit Pai and Mignon Clyburn. The company said it used those meetings to assert that its revised proposal (see 1611100031) should take care of any remaining interference-related concerns regarding its operations below 2483.5 MHz and how they might affect Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and that its TLPS at 2483.5-2495 MHz would have to meet the interference obligations laid out in Part 25 rules. The company also said its latest proposal should address any policy issues stemming from its now-abandoned plan to use 10.5 MHz of unlicensed spectrum. In an ex parte filing, the company recapped phone conversations with International Bureau Satellite Division Chief Jose Albuquerque and Office of Engineering and Technology Deputy Chief Ron Repasi in which it pointed out it would be required to protect other licensed systems from harmful interference while its TLPS wouldn't be entitled to interference protection from other authorized operations, and that its revised proposal follows the power and emissions limits and gating criteria in the NPRM.