ESAA Allocation Change Gets Support from Satellite Companies, In-Flight Connectivity Community

摘要

Satellite companies and in-flight broadband and entertainment providers urged the FCC to approvenrules granting earth stations aboard aircraft (ESAA) primary status as an application of the fixed satellitenservice in the Ku band. ViaSat, Boeing, the Satellite Industry Association and other entities supported thenNPRM in comments due this week. The status change would put ESAA on equal footing with the earthnstations on vessels (ESV) and vehicle-mounted earth stations (VMES) allocations, they said. The commentersnalso highlighted the FCC’s acknowledgment that ESAA networks operated in the conventionalnKu band with no reported interference to other users.