MSS Spectrum Might Be Satcom Mobile Service's Future: NRS

Satellite-to-handset mobile service is the largest business opportunity in satellite communications' history, and will become reality with the inclusion of nonterrestrial networks in the definition of 5G and different companies working on the technology, Northern Sky Research analyst Lluc Palerm wrote Monday. Using mobile network operator spectrum will allow backward compatibility, but convincing 5G chipset manufacturers to incorporate mobile satellite spectrum capabilities into their future designs would offer higher performance capabilities and much higher regulatory certainty, he said.