SpaceX intensifies FCC fight over broadband use
Which the company says poses an existential threat to Starlink
SpaceX’s Elon Musk escalated a battle over broadband regulations with Dish Network and a subsidiary of billionaire Michael Dell. Urging the FCC to review the ongoing dispute over broadband use that could disrupt Starlink’s satellite internet network.
In January 2021, the Federal Communications Commission issued a notice seeking comment on the optimal use of the 12 GHz band. In addition, Dish and RS Access, funded by investment firm Dell, have published research claiming. That terrestrial 5G networks can share frequencies with low-Earth orbiting satellite networks such as Starlink or OneWeb.
SpaceX submitted its analysis of the Dish also RS Access polls on Tuesday, saying it needed to correct. What it called “some of the most uncomfortable assumptions” in the report also said Starlink users saw the disruption as causing customer service disruptions. “74% of the time.”
Musk’s company asked the FCC “to investigate whether DISH also RS Access knowingly filed a misleading report,” noting. That the study disagreed with Dish’s findings two years earlier, which used sharing as “unprofitable.”
A Dish spokesperson told the news that “the company’s experienced engineers are evaluating SpaceX’s claims in the documentary.”
SpaceX isn’t the only one against the possibility of expanding the use of 12GHz. Telecommunications companies such as AT&T, technology giants Google and Microsoft. And satellite network operators such as Intelsat, OneWeb, and SES have spoken to federal agencies against the changes.
A senior SpaceX official told the news that the company hopes its analysis will convince the FCC that the decision in favor of Dish also RS Access poses an existential threat to the company’s Starlink network.
“Leaving the process open is completely unacceptable for political or technical reasons. “In six years, the Commission has let this process rot. And satellite operators have been forced to spend hours engineering time in response to the frivolous arguments of DISH and RS Access,” wrote David Goldman, senior director of satellite policy at SpaceX. Short for the FCC. Tuesday.