Official Act has been posted by Anatel. Since the judgement has been posted, AST has paid the administrative fee and uploaded a German Authorization of D-BLUEBIRD. The next step is for the Act to be posted on the Daily Gazette and the authorization becomes official.
Some additional notes from the latest Anatel analysis made public.
- 5 Q/V Feeders filed through USASAT-NGSO-20 (USA)
- 243 S-Band filed through SSG-CSL (UK)
- Germany filing pending authorization (1-Year deadline)
- Current S Band operators use low capacity, thus 10 MHz split.
@Hkamilu1@melvinm010@NBA Who knows. Knicks draft him early, he may have been shipped out prior to this run. Everything happened for a reason. NBA Champs 🧡
$ASTS $VOD Randomly found this today while reviewing Vodafone annual report. Vodafone has a 23% stake in Satellite Mobile, through TPG Telecom in Australia. It was formed in the summer of 2025. What's it mean? No idea. But speculate away.
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Creative engineering like this will allow Space Network Operators to maximize their spectrum. Of course, it requires some additional complexity and engineering adds to the cost.
Unlike AST and SpaceX n256 which have equal 30 MHz allowing for two 15 MHz or three 10 MHz.
Amazon is looking to maximize its purchase of Globalstar's Big LEO spectrum. The spectrum is 16.5 MHz in both the DL and UL direction. Unfortunately, devices are constrained to using 15 MHz due to 3GPP rules. That means, 10% of their spectrum they acquired can't be used without..
This means channel 1 is from 2483.5 to 2493.5 MHz and channel 2 is from 2490 to 2500 MHz. Between 2490-2493.5 MHz, it would require PRB blocking to ensure no interference from the 2nd channel.
SpaceX proposes a new band in the LTE, NR and NTN domains. Yes, they are proposing a new band which can technically be applied to terrestrial mobile as well.
The band will combine 20 MHz from the AWS-4 block and 5 MHz from the AWS-H Block.
It seems like this is the side effect of SpaceX's swap/combination of the 2000-2020 n252 + 1990-1995 MHz to allow them to broadcast n70 from space. Credit to @starship_x7547 for the table reference.
A few interesting observations. The 5 MHz UL will be co-adjacent to the T-Mobile n25 band. One other observation is SpaceX is the lone contributor at this time. If to be used for SCS alongside an MNO, why not a partner contributor? SpaceX plans to be that partner MNO.
@CytoplasmicANA The upcoming RAN Plenary in Singapore will be very telling. With that said, there have not been any recent co-contributions between TMO and SpaceX in the past month or so. Still time for contributions to roll in before the Plenary. However, we do see a few NTN from TMO+DT.