Trump-led FCC is facing a decision that can degrade satellite connection to Apple’s iPhones but benefits from Spacex’s Starlink mobile service.
This week, Apple’s satellite communication provider, Globalstar, revealed that her lawyers had met with FCC President Brendan Carr, who was friendly with Spacex Elon Musk. During the meeting, they discussed Spacex’s regulatory push to share access to 1.6GHz radio bands and 2.4GHz for mobile satellite connection.
Globalstar has long had exclusive access to that iridium radio spectrum. Expanding entry promises to improve signal quality at Spacex’s Starlink Mobile Service, which is undergoing T-Mobile users through a beta program. But the GlobalStar has warned that it does thus risking to create interference with its satellite network. “There is no justification for the public interest in undermining the environment of the spectrum on which the globalist is based,” he said at the meeting with Carr.
Globalstar added: “Significantly, no party has ever demonstrated that MSS of another operator [mobile satellite service] The system can provide service in the large Leo gang (low land orbit) without causing significant harmful interference to Globalstar’s MSS offers. “
The regulatory battle between GlobalStar and Spacex over the radio spectrum extends back to at least 2022. But SPAT has received a new dimension due to Carr and President Trump, which has made Musk a “special government employee” that oversees the department department RI Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Former chairman of FCC Jessica Rosenworcel and Carr (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Last year, under Democratic Mayor Jessica Rosenworcel, FCC initially denied Spacex’s attempt to use 1.6GHz and 2.4GHz radio gangs. Instead, the Commission demanded that the company go through an official process of rules creation and called for public comment before deciding whether to review the spectrum rules.
Spacex previously told FCC that “GlobalStar’s hyperbolic claims for similarly intervene have no merit,” arguing in a letter May 2024 that “what the globalstar is really afraid is competition itself, something that has achieved to avoid for decades and now requires despair to prevent. “
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In response, the Globalstar has argued: “Spacex has never demonstrated-but even tried to demonstrate his 7,500-mega mega mega or any other MSS system can operate in the large Leo gang without causing significant harmful interference. “
The dispute underlines the light competition to provide satellite-telephone services, which has often included companies lobbying regulators. It is unclear when the FCC will rule on the matter. Meanwhile, the GlobalStar is spending over $ 1 billion to develop a new satellite constellation using 1.6/2.4GHZ gangs to improve satellite connection to the iPhone.
At the same time, Spacex has started dozens of young satellites to strengthen the coverage for its Starlink mobile service, which relies on the licensed T-Mobile spectrum in 1.9GHz gangs.
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