Globalstar Terrestrial Service Appears to Cause Harm, Kerrisdale Capital Says
Kerrisdale Capital Management again said results of Jarvinian's testing for Globalstar’s proposed terrestrial low-power service (TLPS) are inadequate and misleading. Testing by Allion shows that TLPS “could reduce the capacity of nearby unlicensed networks by as much as 60 or…
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70 percent,” Kerrisdale said in an ex parte filing posted Friday in docket 13-213 (http://bit.ly/1vTP4Vj). Engineering simulations also call into question the actual range of TLPS, it said. Independent simulations demonstrate that TLPS will never be able to match the throughput and capacity of a competently designed network “utilizing the many available 5 GHz band channels available today for free,” it said. Kerrisdale urged the FCC to consider the tests conducted by Allion as it assesses Globalstar’s request.