Re:FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites
by ghaff on Saturday March 10, 2018 @12:49AM
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It’s not just this.
There are a number of things in the airline space that are only tangentially related to spectrum, such as in-flight phone calls over WiFi that have at least touched on FCC. Even though it’s 90 percent about passenger annoyance as opposed to actual communications issues.
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Re:FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites
by akvadrako on Saturday March 10, 2018 @05:53AM
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I don't think that's a good example. The FCC regulations should only be covering the communication issues and there significant issues, for example cell phones at high altitudes consume spectrum from a wide area of towers.
It's the FAA regulations that cover passenger issues.
Re:FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites
by ghaff on Saturday March 10, 2018 @09:11AM
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It's pretty clear though that the FCC is basing its decision at least as much on the fact that lots of people hate the idea of calls in planes as on any technical issues. (I fully support banning voice calls by the way. It's not clear that the FCC that authority here though except in a narrow domain.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/04/10/voice-call-ba...