{"id":86165,"date":"2010-09-22T01:14:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/fcc-denies-globalstar-open-range-atc-requests\/"},"modified":"2010-09-22T01:14:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T17:14:09","slug":"fcc-denies-globalstar-open-range-atc-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/fcc-denies-globalstar-open-range-atc-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Denies Globalstar, Open Range ATC Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The U.S. Federal Communications Commission<\/strong> (FCC) has denied <strong>Globalstar<\/strong>\u2019s request for waiver of the Commission\u2019s Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) rules and rejected <strong>Open Range<\/strong>\u2018s request to operate its terrestrial network without a satellite partner, the commission announced.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe specifically reject Open Range\u2019s request that we provide authorization for a period of 18 months, which would be beyond the 180-day maximum period permitted by statute.106 We observe that Open Range has been on notice since December 2009, if not longer, that Globalstar would not be able to meet the July 1, 2010, deadline, and thus already has had significant opportunity to seek access to alternative spectrum,\u201d the commission said in its ruling.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wireless association CTIA hailed the FCC\u2019s decision. \u201cCTIA has long advocated for enforcement of the Commission\u2019s ATC \u2018gating criteria\u2019 to ensure that satellite licensees provide the services for which they were granted licenses. Globalstar\u2019s failure to live up to the gating criteria, and to subsequently live up to the conditions upon which the Commission granted it a waiver, validated CTIA\u2019s concerns.&nbsp; Globalstar could not meet the satellite needs of American consumers and instead sought to parlay a satellite license into a terrestrial network. Had the FCC granted Globalstar and Open Range\u2019s requests, it would have amounted to an end-run of the Commission\u2019s spectrum auctions and would have eviscerated the Commission\u2019s licensing rules,\u201d CTIA President and CEO Steve Largent said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has denied Globalstar\u2019s request for waiver of the Commission\u2019s Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) rules and rejected Open Range\u2018s request to operate its terrestrial network without a satellite partner, the commission announced. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe specifically reject Open Range\u2019s request that we provide authorization for a period of 18 months, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}