Facing Down the Next Spectrum Challenge

摘要

Satellite operators should consider themselves warned that they will face increasing - and increasingly aggressive - challenges in the future for radio spectrum from a terrestrial wireless industry whose voracious appetite for bandwidth is only going to grow. During a recent satellite telecommunications conference in London, experts said wireless industry advocates will once again be gunning for satellite spectrum at the 2015 policymak-ing gathering of global frequency regulators known as the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC). The global satellite industry - or more precisely, its government representatives - fended off a bid to reallocate C-band satellite spectrum at the 2007 WRC, but one should assume that the wireless community will be stronger and better organized this time around.