Verizon Airfone met with International Bureau and Wireless Bureau staff to discuss progress on cross-border agreements with Canada and Mexico when the U.S. begins to permit broadband services on commercial flights following the air-to-ground (ATG) spectrum auction set for May. Verizon is the ATG incumbent and will continue to offer services using a 1 MHz license. It also plans to bid aggressively for the spectrum licenses being offered at auction. The company said timely cross-border negotiations are “critical to enable Airfone to meet its obligation under the new rules adopted by the Commission, i.e., to reconfigure its current narrowband system -- such that it uses just 1 MHz of spectrum -- within 24 months of the grant of new licenses.”
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