CSSMA Backs Kepler/Spire MSS Petition

The Commercial Smallsat Spectrum Management Association, whose membership includes Kepler, backed Kepler/Spire's FCC petition for a rulemaking in the 2020-2025 MHz band (see 2012220049). In an RM-11869 post Tuesday, CSSMA said smallsat mobile satellite service operators are hampered by "piecemeal spectrum allocations," with terrestrial mobile and geostationary satellite operators occupying big spectrum swaths. The 2020-2025 MHz band "has proven of little interest to terrestrial operators," it said.