OneWeb CEO, FCC Chair Talk NGSO Protection Sunsetting

In meetings with FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and the regular commissioners, OneWeb CEO Neil Masterson repeated the company's opposition to a proposed sunset of non-geostationary orbit interference protection for later-round systems and it's urging that if there's to be a sunset it should be 15 years (see 2304120023), per filings Monday in docket 21-456. Also at the Rosenworcel meeting was Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Bharti Enterprises, majority OneWeb shareholder. Intelsat said it met with aides to Commissioners Brendan Carr and Geoffrey Starks to repeat its case for deferring action on any sunset (see 2304140033).