TLPS Can Run at Maximum Power Level, Says Globalstar

Bluetooth had asked Globalstar to run its terrestrial low-power service (TLPS) demonstration at the FCC at 20 decibel-milliwatts (dBm), instead of the maximum 28 dBm, said Barbee Ponder, Globalstar general counsel, in an interview at the satellite week conference in Washington. “We ran at the power limit one would expect to see in an indoor environment,” he said. “We could run at 28, it just wasn’t a real-world deployment in that scenario.” The Belkin access point CableLabs used in its test is “notoriously unstable,” Ponder said. The commission didn’t request additional demos, he said. “Their questions were satisfied” after the demo, he said. Additional lab work will soon be conducted at the commission to characterize the TLPS access points, and measure its power limits and its emissions profile, he said. Globalstar plans to have more demos to show real-world deployment of TLPS, he said. CableLabs and others have criticized the testing (see 1503130015).