Balancing the Needs of Spectrum Users in a Connected Broadband World

摘要

We are in a very exciting time in communications; the demand for broadband communication capabilities by consumers, industry and govern-ment is burgeoning because of the wide variety of innovative services being offered. Nowhere is this more noticeable than in the consumer market where a demand for access to mobile data services is growing exponentially. This demand has led the wireless industry to call for increased access to exclusive spectrum even if it means severely curtailing the rights of other exciting communications technologies access to the same spectrum. A prime example of this is the terrestrial industries' current efforts in the United States to obtain access to the 27.5-28.35 GHz band (the Ka-band) for 5G services, at the expense of the fixed satellite service industry and perhaps more importantly, broadband satellite consumers. This effort by the United States is surprising since at the 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva last fall there was a clear determination by the world not to study the Ka-band for 5G precisely because of existing and future satellite broadband use.