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  • Looking To The Skies: The FCC Seeks Additional Information On Potential

    From Moderator@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 11 15:42:22 2021
    by Chip Yorkgitis

    On November 2, 2021, the Federal Communications Commission's ("FCC's")
    Wireless Telecommunications Bureau ("Bureau") published a public
    notice in the Federal Register focused on asking whether the 71-76
    GHz, 81-86 GHz, 92-94 GHz, and the 94.1-95 GHz bands ("70/80/90 GHz
    Bands") could be used "to provide broadband Internet access to
    consumers and communities that may otherwise lack robust, consistent connectivity." The Commission is particularly interested whether stratospheric-based platforms, such as High Altitude Platform Stations ("HAPS"), which operate above twenty kilometers (approximately 65,000
    feet), could be deployed for this purpose in the 70/80/90 GHz Bands.
    Comments are due by December 2, 2021, and replies by January 3, 2022.

    https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/broadcasting-film-tv-radio/1129762/looking-to-the-skies-the-fcc-seeks-additional-information-on-potential-stratospheric-based-communications-platforms-and-services?email_access=on

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  • From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to Telecom Digest Moderator on Fri Nov 12 19:13:02 2021
    On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 03:42:22PM +0000, Telecom Digest Moderator wrote:
    by Chip Yorkgitis

    ... The Commission is particularly interested whether
    stratospheric-based platforms, such as High Altitude Platform
    Stations ("HAPS"), which operate above twenty kilometers
    (approximately 65,000 feet), could be deployed for this purpose in
    the 70/80/90 GHz Bands.

    https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/broadcasting-film-tv-radio/1129762/looking-to-the-skies-the-fcc-seeks-additional-information-on-potential-stratospheric-based-communications-platforms-and-services?email_access=on

    I am not an expert on this subject, but ISTM that any platform
    supporting multiple users, at that height, would require a fairly
    large solar array for power, I want to know if the platform is
    supported in the air by electric fans, a balloon, or by other means.

    If the support mechanism fails, how would commercial aircraft flying
    below it avoid what might be a fatal debris field?

    Bill

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    Bill Horne
    (remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)

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