Oceus Networks supports the proposal for Globalstar to...

Oceus Networks supports the proposal for Globalstar to establish a low-power terrestrial service (CD May 8 p18). Such a service would meet the specialized needs of Oceus’s federal and public safety customers, commented the wireless broadband solutions provider in docket 13-213 (http://bit.ly/1jjPrCI). These users require solutions that offer more control, Oceus said. End users of the low-power service have a wide selection of equipment they could use, it said. This dramatically decreases an end-user’s costs “and accelerates the time-to-market of this new service, helping users realize this new service’s benefits more rapidly than with a completely greenfield service,” it said. The commission should follow through with its proposal to provide an exception to its integrated services rule, which is critical “to allowing existing, software-modified WiFi enabled devices to be used with the new service,” it said.