SpaceX and T-Mobile Assail Opposition to SCS PFD Waiver Request

Pushback against SpaceX's request for relaxed out-of-band power flux density limits for its supplemental coverage from space service (see 2408130008) is all about trying to use the regulatory process to block competition, SpaceX and T-Mobile said Friday in docket 23-135. SpaceX said "a familiar cast of wannabe competitors [is advocating] needlessly restrictive technical limits [lacking] support in physics or sound engineering practice." AT&T and Verizon are advocating unnecessarily low power levels for SpaceX/T-Mobile "while giving their own partner AST a free pass," it added. The Dish/EchoStar petition, SpaceX said, is trying to get proprietary information "to aid its own failing ambitions." Meanwhile, Omnispace uses its petition "to prop up a decade-old spectrum play that it fears will lose financial value if American consumers can enjoy ubiquitous mobile connectivity using the PCS G Block downlink." T-Mobile said the other wireless operators' assertions ignore SCS operational realities and rely on faulty engineering analyses, while Omnispace and Dish/EchoStar "miss the point."