Sunsetting NGSO Protections 'Unfathomable': OneWeb

Sunsetting non-geostationary orbit fixed satellite service protection would create a "dangerous precedent" in other bands with long-standing interference protection, OneWeb said Wednesday in docket 21-456, recapping a meeting between company representatives and FCC International Bureau staff. Sunsetting two-degree spacing among geostationary FSS networks "would be unfathomable," and sunsetting NGSO FSS interference protection should be viewed the same way, it said. Instead, the agency should codify such mechanisms as good-faith coordination among NGSO operators, limiting use of default band splitting to systems in the same processing round requiring later-filed systems to protect earlier-authorized systems from interference, it said. The FCC said Wednesday that a draft order regarding NGSO FSS interference protection would be on its April agenda (see 2303290068).