SpaceX's SCS Approval Shows Inconsistency, Lynk Tells FCC

The FCC's decision to allow SpaceX to conduct supplemental coverage space testing (see 2312050029) goes "beyond the scope of reasonable, limited, and transparent" testing requirements applied to SCS operators Lynk and AST SpaceMobile, Lynk representatives told members of the offices of Commissioners Anna Gomez, Nathan Simington and Brendan Carr, said a filing Friday in docket 23-65. Lynk said numerous international regulators are changing and implementing applicable rules so jurisdictions can accommodate SCS services, and that international regulators "are looking to the FCC for global leadership on how to address novel SCS services." It said in many cases they are likely to replicate FCC policy. It said SCS applications proposing to use terrestrial bands shouldn't be added as a primary use to the Table of Frequencies and that processing rounds for such terrestrial spectrum wouldn't be necessary since the SCS service would be authorized on a non-protected, noninterference basis.