Message-ID: <20211112191302.GA15779@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2021 19:13:02 +0000
From: Bill Horne <malQassRimiMlation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Looking To The Skies: The FCC Seeks Additional
Information On Potential Stratospheric-Based Communications Platforms And
Services
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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Message-ID: <20211111154222.6506D794@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2021 15:42:22 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Looking To The Skies: The FCC Seeks Additional Information
On Potential Stratospheric-Based Communications Platforms And Services
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
